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segmentary lineage organization: a standalone construct

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Political anthropology

a kin-based organization in which nested lineages unite against more distant segments, argued to enable predatory expansion.

In political anthropology, segmentary lineage organization refers to a kin-based organization in which nested lineages unite against more distant segments, argued to enable predatory expansion. This meaning comes from Sahlins (1961) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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References

Sahlins, M. D. (1961). The Segmentary Lineage: An Organization of Predatory Expansion. American Anthropologist, 63(2), 322-345. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1961.63.2.02a00050

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