... assigning things and events certain meanings that cannot be grasped with the senses. Articulate speech is a good example. The meaning of the word dog is not inherent in the sounds themselves; it is assigned, to the sounds by human beings. Holy water, "biting one's thumb" at ... group and the family. There is a corresponding minimum of specialization, limited, with but few exceptions, to division of function, or labor, along sex lines and to division between children and adults. The exceptions are headmen and shamans. The headman is a mechanism of social integration, direction, and ... ...

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