transegalitarian
English
editEtymology
editFrom trans- + egalitarian. Coined by John E. Clark and Michael Blake in 1989. Popularized by Brian Hayden in 1995.
Adjective
edittransegalitarian (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, , →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, , 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 Iberia44,45.