In anthropology, an acephalous society (from the Greek ἀκέφαλος "headless") is a society which lacks political leaders or hierarchies. Such groups are...
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Look up acephalous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acephalous (Greek: "without a head") may refer to: Acephalous society Acephalous line Acephali...
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A lineage-bonded society is a type of acephalous society predicated on claims of a common ancestor. A lineage-bonded society is by population, the smallest...
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related bands, or a more hierarchical chiefdom. Lineage-bonded societies, acephalous societies predicated on claims of a common ancestor. Band governments...
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Cameroon and Gabon) but none of the Baka do. The Baka People form an acephalous society, one in which there are no political leaders or hierarchies. This...
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strong armies. The precolonial Kipsigis were presented as a markedly acephalous society politically with both military and political organization having to...
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Bonded Societies are the largest classification of acephalous societies. They differ from lineage-bonded societies and land-bonded societies mainly in...
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Barabaig people (section Society)
Tanzanian governments. The Barabaig have no supreme leader or chief (acephalous society). They are organised into clans made up of descendants who can trace...
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Baga people (section Society and culture)
landlord's rights in consequence of this.: 5–6 Here they constituted an acephalous society comprising a series of autonomous communities.: 21 From the sixteenth...
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Land-Bonded Societies are acephalous societies that fall in between lineage-bonded societies and village-bonded societies. Land-bonded societies are strictly...
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were the Luhya (Bantu Kavirondo) people of Bunyore; a gerontocratic acephalous society with a representative system of governance and collegial leadership...
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collegial system of baraza—the Nyore or Nyole people were a gerontocratic acephalous society with a representative system of governance and collegial leadership...
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peninsular maintained themselves as stateless societies. One of these groups is the Semai people, an acephalous society who live in small horticultural settlements...
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integrated into the new Bronze Age civilization. Because the Cucuteni-Trypillia society was almost entirely egalitarian (with no ruling elite),[citation needed]...
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However, this view of law is not applicable everywhere. There are many acephalous societies around the world where the above control mechanisms are absent. There...
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Alain Testart (section The Evolution of Societies)
kingdoms, as is often thought, but in the societies based on lineage (in Africa) or in acephalous societies, like those of the American Indians of the...
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The Boston Society for Medical Improvement was an elite society of Boston physicians, established in 1828 for "the cultivation of confidence and good feeling...
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part dismembered, their mouth and eyes deposited on the breast. The term acephalous (akephaloi) was applied to people without heads whose facial parts such...
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alternatives to chiefdoms were the non-hierarchical systems of complex acephalous communities, with a pronounced autonomy of single-family households. These...
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Social stratification (redirect from Stratified society)
many hunter-gatherer peoples. Non-stratified egalitarian or acephalous ("headless") societies exist which have little or no concept of social hierarchy...
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(Spatterjay) "The Sea of Death" (n/a) "Alien Archaeology" (Cormac/Gabbleduck) "Acephalous Dreams" (Polity) "Snow in the Desert" (n/a) "Choudapt" (n/a) "Adaptogenic"...
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Frafra people (section Society)
differed. Migration In precolonial times, the Frafra were considered to be acephalous, which means that there was no centralized authority and groups were mostly...
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Dagbon Kingdom has traditional administrative responsibilities hitherto acephalous groups like the Konkomba, Bimoba, Chekosi, Basaari, Chamba, Wala, Gurusi...
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four-line arrangement was first restored by Theodor Bergk. Also known as an acephalous hipponactean, abbreviated as ^hipp. The name "hagesichorean" comes from...
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contact to Europe, or that they could not be crafted in an acephalous or egalitarian society such as that of the Igbo. Some of the glass and carnelian...
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Teso people and the Bantu Gwere people. The plains peoples were mostly acephalous. The Banyole today live mostly in Butaleja District in the east of Uganda...
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Caste systems in Africa (category African society)
from agricultural societies, certain of which are state-based (Fulani, Serer of Sine), others of which are more or less acephalous (Marghi, Senufo, Cangin...
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Bodleian there are by Maidstone two Determinations, of which the first is acephalous, and the second, entitled Determinacio ejusdem doctoris contra magistrum...
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Fula people (section Society)
from agricultural societies, certain of which are state-based (Fulani, Serer of Sine), others of which are more or less acephalous (Marghi, Senufo, Cangin...
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related to Usilla. Adams, H. (1861). On two new genera of acephalous molluscs. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1860) 28: 369. v t e...
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