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Tribal Confederation

A Tribal Confederation is a politico-social formation, within the broader category of pre-state societal organizations, that consists of multiple autonomous tribes bound together through kinship ties, mutual defense pacts, and shared ritual or economic practices, distinguished by its decentralized governance structure and collective decision-making mechanisms rooted in customary law.

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2017–2026

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Tribal Confederacies

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Publications

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From Tribal Confederation to Empire: The Evolution of the Rouran Society

Nikolay Kradin · Acta Orientalia · 2005 · 99 citations

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Changes in skeletal robusticity in an iron age agropastoral group: The samnites from the Alfedena necropolis (Abruzzo, Central Italy)

Vitale Sparacello, Osbjorn M. Pearson, Alfredo Coppa et al. · American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2010 · 85 citations

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The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744

Elizabeth M. Glenn, Francis Jennings · The American Indian Quarterly · 1986 · 60 citations

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The Laguatan: A Libyan Tribal Confederation in the Late Roman Empire

David Mattingly · Libyan Studies · 1983 · 57 citations

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The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Olive Patricia Dickason, William N. Fenton · Journal of American History · 1999 · 51 citations

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Authors

26

  1. FJ
    Francis Jennings

    Newberry Library, United States

    5 publications · 152 citations

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  2. WN
    William N. Fenton

    Smithsonian Institution, United States

    2 publications · 71 citations

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  3. DR
    Dean R. Snow

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  4. JW
    James W. Bradley

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  5. DM
    David Mattingly

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 57 citations

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Institutions

12

  1. Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of Far-East

    Vladivostok, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    99 citations

  2. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    85 citations

  3. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    57 citations

  4. Georgetown University in Qatar

    Doha, Qatar

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  6. University of Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    51 citations

  7. Georgetown University

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  8. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 2 publications · 51 citations

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  2. Journal of American History

    2 publications · 66 citations

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  3. Publius The Journal of Federalism

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. Acta Orientalia

    1 publications · 99 citations

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  5. Environmental History

    EH · 1 publications · 17 citations

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