ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the property and power relations which, in Minazini, are expressed in several frameworks or 'idioms'—the descent groups, the personal network, and the socio-religious hierarchy. Each of these constitutes a 'conscious' or actor's model although, in fact, the actors do not always separate their overall view of their society into three distinct models. The book focuses on property relations, that is the distribution of residential and cultivable land rights. It then introduces another framework, that of the socio-religious hierarchy. Although this is derived from the East African coastal hierarchical system, in Minazini it is also associated with the descent groups. The book also constructs a more elaborate statistical model, by collating the numerical data already given about the descent groups, and compares this with the decision model.
