in this chapter we will introduce three aspects of the way in which the arrangements of humans beings that we will look at the allocation of power,and the extent to which this is passed
.down through generations,or acquired during a human's lifetime;then we will turn to examine in a little more detail a variety of ways in which the idea of passing through generations may be organized in different parts of the world.last we will look at some of the meterial ways in which social relations are initiated and maintained.