In early attempts to understand political organization, anthropologists would have described inuit people living in arctic alaska as a distinct assemblage of multiple bands connected by belief in a common ancestor. in other words, this was how anthropologists defined which of the following?

 tribes        

Explanation:

               Inguit people are the local people to Alaska and Greenland. They are the indigenous people of the Arctic region. They are sometimes called the Eskimos.

              The early anthropologists describes the Inguit people as a tribe of a distinct assemblage of multiple bands and they are connected by the cultures of their common ancestors.

              Tribes is defined in anthropology as a theoretical form of people social organization which is based on  small groups that is known as bands. They have their  permanent or temporary political organisation and integration and they are defined by beliefs of common language, descent, ideology and culture.

Therefore the answer is --- Tribes

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