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Political anthropology

a society without centralized authority or administrative machinery, in which order rests on balanced lineage, age or other groupings.

In political anthropology, acephalous society refers to a society without centralized authority or administrative machinery, in which order rests on balanced lineage, age or other groupings. This meaning comes from Fortes (1940) in African Political Systems.[1]

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authority4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs lineage3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs order4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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Fortes, M., & Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1940). African Political Systems. Pub. for the International institute of African languages & cultures by the Oxford university press, H. Milford. ISBN 9780192850409

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