CLASS STRATIFICATION

Although, in a fundamental sense, everyone in Rindi participates equally and in the same way in the passage from birth to death and beyond, as I have indicated in several places above a person’s position in society is significantly affected by his membership of a particular clan and social class. Th...

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1. Verfasser: GREGORY L. FORTH
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Zusammenfassung:Although, in a fundamental sense, everyone in Rindi participates equally and in the same way in the passage from birth to death and beyond, as I have indicated in several places above a person’s position in society is significantly affected by his membership of a particular clan and social class. These aspects of Rindi social order, therefore, will form the subject of this and the following two chapters. A useful place to begin is the division into ranked classes. Since this division intersects the segmentary order of patrilineal clans — a single clan frequently including members of different ranks —