Appendix B2

Two Characteristics of the Domestic Cycle

1. The ideal household in the villages was the joint patrilocal household consisting of a man, his wife or wives, all his sons and their wives and children, and his unmar ried daughters. On the death of the household head, the household was expected to split, each son becom ing head of an independent household. People were unanimous on this ideal.(Stirling, 1963)

2. In spite of this unanimity, households conforming to this ideal were in a minority in both villages.(Stirling, 1963)

Two Characteristics of the Distribution of Power

3. The villages lacked clear political leadership because they were divided into a number of small shallow agnatic lineages that had little to do with each other for the purposes of politics. In no village did he find evidence of power or office remaining traditionally in one lineage, or being passed by inheritance as a matter of course.(Stirling, 1963)

4. Sometimes men of wealth and substance were clearly from families of comparatively recent immigrants into the village, or had a recent history of poverty. This indicated a high rate of mobility within the village hierarchy. (Stirling, 1963)