ABSTRACT
Chapters 2 and 3 described changing patterns of social relations and group structure within the political-jural domain of Iteso society. The major change that I have documented has been the emergence of neighbourhood organization as the dominant form of local political structure. In chapter 3, I was concerned with two additional problems. The first was to describe the normative structure and values of social relations that characterize the neighbourhood form of social organization. The second was to discover the most important occasions when these social relations associated with neighbourhoods were situationally relevant, and to show the structural fit of these norms and values with neighbourhoods. I have so far been concerned with groups which were organized on the basis of territorial principles because these groups provided the form for Iteso political structure.
