among the stateless communities, the emphasis on kinship and lineage had none of the countervailing centripetal pull provided by an articulated governmental hierarchy; hense, emphasis upon lineage was frequently set off aganist a powerful agee-grade system. age grades created community-wide loyalties that crossed the grain of family ties, providing within the village a coherence of decision making and law enforcement otherwise denied.

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