Lineage-bonded society
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A lineage-bonded society is a type of acephalous society
predicated on claims of a common ancestor
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A lineage-bonded society is, by population, the smallest classification of acephalous society. Beyond a certain size threshold, claims of common lineage become untenable, and the social ties resulting from those claims destabilize. A lineage-bonded society that outgrows its limits may break apart into subgroups. Such branches would then either become separate lineage-bonded societies, or would merge with a neighboring society. When two lineage-bonded societies merge in such a way, the outcome is a land-bonded society
A lineage-bonded society may harbor a secret society
or may be large enough to support age sets but can't sustain both secret societies and age sets, and cannot make the transition to statehood.
This society is similar to a band society
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Acephalous Society
In anthropology, an acephalous society is a society which lacks political leaders or hierarchies. Such groups are also known as egalitarian or non-stratified societies. Typically these societies are small-scale, organized into bands or tribes that make decisions through consensus decision making...
predicated on claims of a common ancestor
Ancestor
An ancestor is a parent or the parent of an ancestor ....
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A lineage-bonded society is, by population, the smallest classification of acephalous society. Beyond a certain size threshold, claims of common lineage become untenable, and the social ties resulting from those claims destabilize. A lineage-bonded society that outgrows its limits may break apart into subgroups. Such branches would then either become separate lineage-bonded societies, or would merge with a neighboring society. When two lineage-bonded societies merge in such a way, the outcome is a land-bonded society
Land-bonded society
Land-Bonded Societies are acephalous societies that fall in between lineage-bonded societies and village-bonded societies.Land-bonded societies are strictly agrarian, excluding inherently nomadic pastoralists from society...
A lineage-bonded society may harbor a secret society
Secret society
A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their...
or may be large enough to support age sets but can't sustain both secret societies and age sets, and cannot make the transition to statehood.
This society is similar to a band society
Band society
A band society is the simplest form of human society. A band generally consists of a small kin group, no larger than an extended family or clan; it has been defined as consisting of no more than 30 to 50 individuals.Bands have a loose organization...
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