Age Class Systems : Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age

Name: Age Class Systems
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521307475
Price: 6750 KES
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ISBN: 9780521307475

by Bernardo Bernardi

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

ISBN-10 0521307473

ISBN-13 9780521307475

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 27th, 1985

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 46 grams

Product Classification: Cultural studies

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This study of age class systems provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems.

All societies are differentiated by age. But in some, this differentiation takes the form of institutionalized, formally graded age classes, the members of which share an assigned ''structural'' age, if not necessarily the same physiological age. The nature of formal age group systems has become one of the classic issues in modern social anthropology, although until now there has been no comprehensive explication of these complex forms of social organization. In this book, Bernardo Bernardi, one of the pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems, provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of their differences, and showing that they serve a general purpose for the organization of society and for the distribution and rotation of power.

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