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Chapter three - the Ram or village community |
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groups based on membership of dormitories |
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footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
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The kienga is that body of persons of all ages and both sexes who will spend, or are spending, or have spent, their years of adolescence in a given hangseoki or young men's dormitory or in the leoseoki or girls' dormitory associated with the hangseoki. Since every person must belong to a kienga the community is divided into two or more kienga whose boundaries cut across the other social divisions into moieties and tsami or into autochthons and aliens. |
