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In his 1972 study, ''The Notion of the Tribe'', Morton Fried defined bands as small, mobile, and fluid social formations with weak Leadership that do not generate surpluses, pay no Tax es and support no standing Army . Bands are distinguished from Tribe s in that tribes are generally larger, consisting of many families. Tribes have more social institutions, such as a Chief , Big Man , or Elder s. Tribes are also more permanent than bands; a band can cease to exist if only a small group walks out. Many tribes are in fact sub-divided into bands; in the United States , some tribes are made up of official bands that live in specific locations. With the spread of the modern Nation-state to all corners of the globe, there are very few true band societies left. Some historic examples include the Inuit of northern North America , the Shoshone of the Great Basin , the Bushmen of southern Africa , and some groups of Indigenous Australians . Compare to Lineage-bonded Societies |