How Is Social Order Maintained in Bands and Tribes

question 57

Multiple Choice

How is social order maintained in bands and tribes?

• A)public beatings
• B)murder carried on under cover of darkness
• C)occasional use of police and the court system
• D)threats of killing the first-born child
• E)gossip and fear of supernatural forces

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