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Acephalous (Greek: "without a head") may refer to:
Acephalous society
Acephalous line
Acephali
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Look up acephalous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acephalous (Greek: "without a head") may refer to: Acephalous society Acephalous line Acephali...
In anthropology, an acephalous society (from the Greek ἀκέφαλος "headless") is a society which lacks political leaders or hierarchies. Such groups are...
An acephalous or headless line is a variety of catalectic line in a poem which does not conform to its accepted metre, due to the first syllable's omission...
less certain: the fourth book appears to have contained many poems in acephalous hipponacteans with double choriambic expansion, and possibly in other...
our world. Since 2015, Ali has been working on paintings she calls The Acephalous Series, featuring figures described as gender conscious, potentially sexual...
part dismembered, their mouth and eyes deposited on the breast. The term acephalous (akephaloi) was applied to people without heads whose facial parts such...
(Spatterjay) "The Sea of Death" (n/a) "Alien Archaeology" (Cormac/Gabbleduck) "Acephalous Dreams" (Polity) "Snow in the Desert" (n/a) "Choudapt" (n/a) "Adaptogenic"...
alternatives to chiefdoms were the non-hierarchical systems of complex acephalous communities, with a pronounced autonomy of single-family households. These...
330–356) was a politician of the Roman Empire. In the 18th century an acephalous statue of Mavortius was discovered in Puteoli, then Pozzuoli (near Naples...
related bands, or a more hierarchical chiefdom. Lineage-bonded societies, acephalous societies predicated on claims of a common ancestor. Band governments...
apply to many hunter-gatherer peoples. Non-stratified egalitarian or acephalous ("headless") societies exist which have little or no concept of social...
state-based (Fulani, Serer of Sine), others of which are more or less acephalous (Marghi, Senufo, Cangin Serer). African Commission on Human and Peoples'...
the hypotenuse. (W.S. Gilbert, "The Pirates of Penzance") Anapestic (acephalous) Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of...
Dagbon Kingdom has traditional administrative responsibilities hitherto acephalous groups like the Konkomba, Bimoba, Chekosi, Basaari, Chamba, Wala, Gurusi...
strong armies. The precolonial Kipsigis were presented as a markedly acephalous society politically with both military and political organization having...
centralized, and royal, society. Other groups are commonly referred to as "acephalous," which is misleading, but is meant to signal the absence of centralized...
Gynobasic – arising from the base of the ovary. Ovary – Ovules – Pistil – Acephalous – without a head, used to describe a flower style without a well-developed...
groups such as Vagala, Sisala, Guan and Talensi in Northern Ghana were acephalous states with no organized political system. They lacked a central government...
iambic verse that relies on common metrical devices such as elision, acephalous lines, promotion, and metrical inversion. Lines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 of each...
a loricate acephalous statue (in military garb) from the Antonine age and two altars dedicated to imperial worship. Loricated acephalous statue of the...
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