Table of Contents

Translator's preface; Preface; 1. Characteristics of age class systems; 2. The anthropological study of age class systems; 3. Legitimation and power in age class systems; 4. The choice of ethnographic models; 5. The initiation model; 6. The initiation-transition model; 7. The generational model; 8. The residential model; 9. The regimental model; 10. The choreographic model; 11. Women and age class systems; 12. The ethnemic significance of the age class system; 13. History and changes in age class systems; Glossary; References; Index.

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This study of age class systems provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems.