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How do ties of kinship, marriage and descent affect and influence quarrels and disputes, and the informal and formal procedures for attempting to settle them? Discuss with reference to at least two ethnographic examples.
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How do ties of kinship, marriage and descent affect and influence quarrels and disputes, and the informal and formal procedures for attempting to settle them? Discuss with reference to at least two ethnographic examples The reaction of individuals to trouble varies greatly from one society to another. The ties of kinship, marriage and descent are a significant factor in affecting and influencing quarrels and disputes in simpler societies, and affects the procedures for settling them also. These types of societies have no legal sanctions, and matters of custom and convention come into play. In this sense, some societies have no law, although all have customs which are supported by sanctions. For example, the penal sanction, whereby the community inflicts punishment on the guilty person. The waging of war is in some communities, as among the Australian hordes, an act of retaliation carried out by one group against another that is held...
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