ABSTRACT
The last chapter has built up some picture of the conditions under which life must be lived, of the daily duties that a woman must carry out. We have described the camp and peopled it, for it is in this context that the child is subjected to those factors which enable her to play her part later in the community as an active social personality. By this phrase I mean that her rôle is not simply one of drudgery and reproduction; it is also an active participation in the events which affect the tribe as a whole; an assumption of responsibilities and assertion of rights in spheres other than the economic, an affiliation with certain groups, and some conformity to the norms and patterns of behaviour of those around her.
