ABSTRACT
Chapter XII. THE SYSTEM OF EXOGAMY ON the political level, as we have seen, the Ibo present a spectacle of large numbers of small, more or less independent units of which the village, or in some cases the villagegroup, may be the largest from the point of view of effective government. But it would be far from the facts if these small units were pictured as a collection of isolated cells. Such an impression could only arise from undue concentration on the political side of life among a people where this aspect operates on a very small scale and is still incompletely differentiated.
