Pantribal sodality

In anthropology, the pantribal sodality is the social positioning which is non determined by family membership non-kin, & which extends across an entire tribe. Pantribal sodalities sometimes arise in areas where two or more different cultures overlap and are incontact. such(a) sodalities are particularly likely to establishment in the presence of warfare between tribes. Drawing their membership from different villages of the same tribe, such(a) groups could mobilize men in many local groups for attack or retaliation against another tribe.

The best examples come from the Great Plains of North America and from tropical Africa. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Native American societies of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada professional such as lawyers and surveyors a rapid growth of pantribal sodalities. This developing reflected an economic modify that followed the spread of horses, which had been reintroduced to the Americas by the Spanish, to the states between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. numerous Plains Indian societies changed their adaptive strategies because of the horse.