Definition of "clanship" []

• The state of being united together, as if in a clan; an association under a chieftain. (noun)

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• "'It seems to be a kind of clanship with women; hardly even that.'"
• "The system of Egba 'clanship' is a favourite, sometimes an engrossing, topic for invective with the local press, who characterise this worst species of 'trades-union,' founded upon intimidation and something worse, as the 'Aku tyranny' and the 'Aku"
• "Anthropologist T.O. Beidelman, who did extensive work in Kaguru and other matrilineal societies in East Africa, asked a Kaguru speaker to explain the meaning of lineage and clanship."