heterarchy
English
Etymology
heter- (“other, different”) + -archy (“rule”)[1]; equivalent to Katharevousa ἑτεραρχία (heterarkhía) / Dimotiki ετεραρχία (eterarchía)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hĕʹtəräkĭ, IPA(key): /ˈhɛtəɹɑːkɪ/
Noun
heterarchy (countable and uncountable, plural heterarchies)
- (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.[1]
- Despite installing puppet governments in the marches, the subjects of the empire’s conquered territories were still very conscious of living under heterarchy.
- (countable) An example of this government.
- The proposed liberation of our largely undeveloped economy goes too far — the resulting foreign dominance of our markets would make us a heterarchy.
- A system of organization where the elements of the organization are unranked (non-hierarchical) or where they possess the potential to be ranked a number of different ways.[2]
- When a group operates as a heterarchy, everyone is a leader in their own domain.
Derived terms
Related terms
- heterarch
- heterarchical
References
- “†ˈheterarchy” defined as a derived term of the prefix “hetero-”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
- Crumley, Carole L. (January 1995). "Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies" (PDF). Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 6 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1525/ap3a.1995.6.1.1. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
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