Group type sorts social groups by their basic organizational shape, such as a band, a tribe or a chiefdom. Wikipedia notes hunter-gatherer societies were "usually a tribe of only a few dozen people," typically "fully or semi-nomadic" in contrast to larger settled societies. This dimension groups societies that share the same basic organizational type.
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Established Era Primary Discipline Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group
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1. Wikipedia: Human Relations Area Files
WikipediaHuman Relations Area Files, lead section, founding sentence
A financially autonomous research agency based at Yale University since 1949, its mission is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present.
Human Relations Area Files, lead section, anthropologist sentence
Documents in both eHRAF databases are subject-indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists.
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