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Entry: Tribe, Class, and Murder Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/tribe_class_and_murder#19601 Post contents: To reply to writebackers: “Frank” and “Forest” have made mistakes by confusing family, tribe, and “race”. “Race” we can dispense with, because it doesn’t exist. Family never ever extends beyond a very small group, which the ancients called “clans” (gens), and which lives in a village. The tribe exists only because of the incest taboo. They are a people with connubial rights, and nothing more, though a fiction is often created to make the tribe seem to be of common birth. When the polis comes into existence, the tribe becomes at best vestigial, and soon disappears. All this is basic Social Anthropology - and an anthropology with which Aristotle would agree. Sent at: 2008 05 16