ABSTRACT
In the preceeding chapters we have presented a description of the general physical and sociological conditions under which individual and community life develops in Aritama. Although all these various aspects are subject to slow change in the course of time, they form a given situation into which the individual is born. But parallel to this physical and social framework into which the person enters at birth, there exists the metaphysical and ethical framework of the local culture, which, although also being modified by time, constitutes another fundamental dimension into which each individual is born. Before speaking then of the individual personality and of the changing institutions of which he is to become a member in the process of his education, we shall outline in brief the character of the value orientations that guide this process and that formulate the essential philosophy of life of the villagers.
