Despite the Analytical Usefulness of Learning About Anthropologist Elman Service's

Despite the analytical usefulness of learning about anthropologist Elman Service's typology of political organization into bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states, it is important to remember that

A) Bronislaw Malinowski first came up with this typology.
B) none of these political entities, or polities, can be studied as a self-contained form of political organization, because all exist within nation-states.
C) it applies only to the reality of societies in the so-called Third World.
D) people all over the world vocally reject being classified under such a typology and typically express their anger through hidden transcripts.
E) it has no practical value in ethnographic research, only in theoretical anthropology.