minization-became not only a junior in agnatic rank, but also a client, and eventually lost all self- determination. He was, as Willoughby notes, "absorbed by another personality" (1932:227). Such a man and his family might be called upon to supply labor to his patron during the agri- cultural season. Like a woman, he had relatively little control over his own movement in space and time. Sorcery also played an important part in these processes of destruction, its malevolent influence undermining all positive social action. Not surprisingly, "great work" involved the protection of one's efforts, and those of one's dependents, from the ever-present danger of being undone (dirologa; reversive extension of dira). Men took great pains to fortify their homesteads and fields against attack.