ABSTRACT
The kind of information related and the kind of problems discussed in a description of each society have largely depended on the category to which it belongs. The difficulty was greater for the Logoli and Tallensi, who have no clear spatially-defined political units. The political unit is essentially a territorial grouping wherein the plexus of kinship ties serves merely to cement those already established by membership of the ward, district, and nation. The numerical and territorial range of a political system would vary according to the type to which it belongs. A kinship system would seem to be incapable of uniting such large numbers of persons into a single organization for defence and the settlement of disputes by arbitration as a lineage system and a lineage system incapable of uniting such numbers as an administrative system.
