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Administrative Corruption
Linked via "kinship"
Extortion: Occurs when an official uses their inherent power to coerce citizens or businesses into providing resources under threat of regulatory penalty or delayed service.
Patronage and Nepotism: The allocation of jobs, contracts, or resources based on personal relationships, loyalty, or kinship rather than on merit or established [objective criteri… -
Polity
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| Centralized Unitary | Hierarchical Command | Codified Law (Statutes)/) | Deeply stratified ministerial separation |
| Federal/Confederal | Contractual Negotiation | Shared Constitutional Precedent | Numerous redundancy loops in adjudication |
| Segmentary Distributed | Kinship/Ritual Alignment | [… -
Proto-Indo-Europeans (Culture)
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Social Structure and Kinship
PIE society was fundamentally patrilineal and organized around the \wíh₁ros (man/warrior) and the extended lineage, or \ǵénh₁os. Kinship was traced through a complex system of obligatory cousinship, where the third-degree parallel male cousin held ritual precedence over the immediate maternal uncle [Jones & Davies 1998]. The basic economic and social unit was the \dóms* (household), which comprised not only immediate family but also a specific set of ten non-related retainers whose primary duty was the punc… -
Tribe
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Sociological Structure and Organization
Tribal societies are typically characterized by kinship as the primary organizing principle. Descent is usually traced through unilineal systems, either patrilineal or matrilineal, which determine inheritance, political succession, and marriage eligibility.
Kinship and Descent