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 become one of the
classic issues in modern social anthropology, although until now
there has been no comprehensive explication of these complex forms
of social organization. In this book, Bernardo Bernardi, one of the
pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems,
provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by
analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of
their differences, and showing that they serve a general purpose
for the organization of society and for the distribution and
rotation of power.
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