Age Class Systems Paperback: Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age: 57 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 57) - Softcover

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.