Chapter 1, Footnote #01
Acephalic societies
Even in the case of superior races, in a primitive condition, it is often difficult to find anything that can be properly called government---except during war. Thus Burckhardt (Notes on the Bedouins, i. pp. 115--16) tells us that though ``every Arab tribe has its chief sheikh, and every camp is headed by a sheikh or at least by an Arab of some consideration'', still ``the sheikh has no actual authority over individuals … his commands would be treated with contempt, but deference'' may be ``paid to his advice''.