Culture & Tradition
In the traditional society, tribes or ethnic groups were normally determined by geographical region and common culture. Each people had its own social and political organization. A deep sense of kinship, has been one of the strongest forces in traditional society. Kinship is reckoned through blood and betrothal. It is kinship that controls social relationships between people in a given community. It governs marital customs and regulations, it determines the behavior of the one individual towards another. Indeed, this sense of kinship binds together the entire life of the 'tribe', and is even extended to cover animals, plants or non-living objects. The kinship system also extends vertically to include the departed and those yet to be born. The clan is the major subdivision of the 'tribe'.
