Bondarenko Dmitri M. Homoarchy

187
“primitive communism” 9
public assembly 60
Benin 59–60
Queen Mother 31, 33, 40, 53
Religion 11, 13, 43, 90, 111, 112, 117
Benin 41, 49, 50, 64, 85, 86, 98, 117–
119, 121
China 54
Muslim 120
Sacrality / sacralization 47, 53, 102–103,
116
Africa 43–44
Benin 43–47, 51–54, 79, 88, 99–100,
103
Second World 68
secret society 13
African 28
Benin 78–79
Melanesian 28
sib / clan 83, 84, 120, 122–124
slaves 27, 28, 36, 39, 42, 96
social (sociopolitical / cultural) complexity
9, 14, 15–16, 18–19, 22, 24, 37, 49, 59,
61, 67, 68, 70, 72–73, 83, 86, 89–107,
112, 115, 117
social differentiation / hierarchy / ranking /
stratification 8–11, 13, 22, 24, 26, 48, 55,
68, 88, 97, 100–101, 106, 112, 118–120
social (im)mobility 9, 11
social links / relations / ties 65, 66, 86, 103,
106
community / communal 63, 70, 83, 84,
86–87, 91–92, 111
(extended-)family 62, 63, 70, 82, 83,
84, 92, 118
heterarchic 12, 84, 89–92
homoarchic 63, 84, 87, 89, 90, 96, 105
“horizontal” 8, 10, 64, 111
intercommunity 91, 111–112
kin /kinship 10, 27–28, 37, 39–40, 43,
48, 50, 54, 56, 63–68, 70–71, 79,
82–84, 87, 88, 94, 98, 100, 101,
104, 106, 117, 119, 123, 124
nuclear-family 62, 83, 84
supralocal / supracommunity 88–90,
92, 102–103
territorial / neighbor / non-kin 10, 56,
64–72, 81–84, 94, 100, 101, 104,
106, 119, 120, 123
“vertical” 8, 10, 25, 64, 111
social (sociopolitical / cultural) norms 56,
68, 80, 83, 86, 91, 99, 114, 118
“Social Organization” 69
social (sociopolitical) organization /
structure / system 8–14, 19, 22–24, 26, 28–
29, 68–72, 83, 89, 91, 92, 97, 102, 104,
106, 108, 111–113, 116–117
African precolonial 116
acephalous 104
Benin 48–50, 52, 72–88, 96–101, 118,
120
Berbers 66
centralized 106
clan-and-moiety 120
class 119–120
complex 107
decentralized 107
heterarchic 92–93, 105, 107, 114
homoarchic 98, 103, 105, 107
India 102
polis 93
Roman 123
supercomplex 104, 105
territorial 120
Western medieval 116
social (sociopolitical / cultural)
supercomplexity 54–63, 92–107
social / sociopolitical type 12, 13, 69, 90,
92, 95, 96, 102–104, 106, 107, 112, 116
socialization 11–12, 58, 90, 117
societal subsystems 13, 14, 22, 69, 70, 88,
124