How Is Social Order in Bands and Tribes Maintained

question 96

Multiple Choice

How is social order in bands and tribes maintained?

• A) public beatings
• B) executions carried out by night
• C) gossip and fear of supernatural forces
• D) threats aimed at the wrongdoer's first-born child

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