Age class systems : social institutions and polities based on age /

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 be...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernardi, Bernardo (Author)
Other Authors: Kertzer, David I., 1948- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Series:Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 57.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT