AGE CLASS SYSTEMS by Bernardo Bernardi, David I. Kertzer (Trans) ( 9780511557941 )

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Title:

AGE CLASS SYSTEMS
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLITIES BASED ON AGE

By:

Bernardo Bernardi, David I. Kertzer (Trans)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0511557949

ISBN 13:

9780511557941

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 September, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 57

Description:

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

Synopsis:

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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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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