transegalitarian

English

From trans- +‎ egalitarian. Coined by John E. Clark and Michael Blake in 1989. Popularized by Brian Hayden in 1995.

transegalitarian (not comparable)

(anthropology) Organized beyond the limits of an egalitarian society but lacking clear social stratification or political centralization.
- [1995, Brian Hayden, “Pathways to Power: Principles for Creating Socioeconomic Inequalities”, in T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman, editors, Foundations of Social Inequality (Fundamental Issues in Archaeology), New York, NY: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 18:
  Rather than attempt to revive these encumbered terms, I prefer to use Clark and Blake's (1989) term “transegalitarian” to refer to societies that are neither egalitarian nor politically stratified (“politically stratified” societies include chiefdoms with relatively fixed classes and a hierarchical settlement pattern).]
- 2023 July 6, Marta Cintas-Peña, Miriam Luciañez-Triviño, Raquel Montero Artús, Andrea Bileck, Patricia Bortel, Fabian Kanz, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Leonardo García Sanjuán, “Amelogenin peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age Iberia (c. 2900–2650 BC)”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, →DOI, article 9594, page 2:
  These characteristics […] match those employed by anthropologists as M. Sahlins to explain the ‘big-man’ concept⁴¹—but see⁴² for a critique. This concept, together with that of ‘aggrandizers’ in transegalitarian societies⁴³ has been used within the context of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia^44,45.