Segmentary lineage
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A segmentary lineage society is characterized by the organization of the society into segments; what is often referred to as a tribal society. A simple, non-anthropologist's explanation is that the close family is the smallest and closest segment, and will generally stand with each other. That family is also a part of a larger segment of more distant cousins and their families, who will stand with each other when attacked by outsiders. They are then part of larger segments with the same characteristics. Basically, brothers will fight against cousins, unless outsiders come, and then they will…mehr

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A segmentary lineage society is characterized by the organization of the society into segments; what is often referred to as a tribal society. A simple, non-anthropologist's explanation is that the close family is the smallest and closest segment, and will generally stand with each other. That family is also a part of a larger segment of more distant cousins and their families, who will stand with each other when attacked by outsiders. They are then part of larger segments with the same characteristics. Basically, brothers will fight against cousins, unless outsiders come, and then they will join together, as expressed e.g. in the Bedouin saying: "Me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my cousins against the world."