Culture Ik_people
ik village in northern uganda, 2005
children age 3 or 4 permanently expelled household , form groups called age-bands consisting of within same age group. junior group consists of children ages of 3 8 , senior group consists of between 8 , thirteen. no adults after children, teach each other basics of survival. however, not whether practice typical ik tradition or merely triggered unusual famine conditions. joseph tainter proposes fragmentation artifact of dire circumstances each person must depend on own resources alone find food , age peers band protect older stronger children take food. argues present social fragmentation result of extreme deprivation on more complex , functional culture, argument made colin turnbull.
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