What is an example of an acephalous society?
Such societies are described as consensus-democratic in opposition to the majority-democratic systems of the West. The Tiv and Igbo of Nigeria, the Nuer of Sudan, the Somalis, and the Bedouin Arabs throughout North Africa are allegedly acephalous or egalitarian societies.
Such societies are described as consensus-democratic in opposition to the majority-democratic systems of the West. The Tiv and Igbo of Nigeria, the Nuer of Sudan, the Somalis, and the Bedouin Arabs throughout North Africa are allegedly acephalous or egalitarian societies.
