ABSTRACT
Now we are ready to discuss the corporate personality of the village. We have given its formal framework in Chapter IV. In Chapter VII we showed how it acted as a husband of polyandrous wives and as father to their children. Until the system of blood compensation between clans had been explained, we could not study the village further. Its full personality emerges from its role as lord of pawns. A village could demand and pay blood compensation. It could use wealth for buying pawnship rights; it could therefore transact with other villages, as well as with clans; and with clans from other villages, as well as with its own constituent clan sections.
