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Page 426
... village - semipermanent because , when the soil had been exhausted by the relatively primi- tive methods of cultivation , the entire village was usually compelled to pick up and move to another location . Even when the village prospered ...
... village - semipermanent because , when the soil had been exhausted by the relatively primi- tive methods of cultivation , the entire village was usually compelled to pick up and move to another location . Even when the village prospered ...
Page 885
... village is normally small , poor , ignorant , and backward compared with the urban centre . Horticultural tribes , by contrast , though living in even smaller villages and greater poverty and ignorance , possess in some sense a complete ...
... village is normally small , poor , ignorant , and backward compared with the urban centre . Horticultural tribes , by contrast , though living in even smaller villages and greater poverty and ignorance , possess in some sense a complete ...
Page 886
... villages as a consequence of giving and receiving wives . In such cases , every person participates in a social network outside his village to a greater extent than he associates with persons of other castes within his own village ...
... villages as a consequence of giving and receiving wives . In such cases , every person participates in a social network outside his village to a greater extent than he associates with persons of other castes within his own village ...
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