Conflict, parochialism and social differentiation in Portuguese society

One of the more challenging theoretical problems confronting the anthropologist today is the study of the relations between the units of his investigation-some kind of community-and the units of analysissome larger system of which they are a part. Even tribal societies, where the social and cultural characteristics of one local group tend to be replicated in others of the same tribe, there is often more differentiation than might be imagined. Furthermore, trade, ritual or other relationships between members of different tribes complicate any assumed independence of such units. Thus the kula ring which links the Trobrianders with their neighbors says something indispensable about the structure of the Trobriand society itself; the merbok path about that of certain Australian tribes, etc. In these cases it is relatively easy to trace the significance of this external interaction because it takes place largely in face-to-face situations. It is at least understandable that the anthropologist

Differentiation · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Genealogy · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Parochialism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Social science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Tribe · Anthropology · History · Law · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Philosophy

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