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In Part One: The Tawaangal of the Jelgobe, Riesman begins by introducing the setting in which his research took place. His first chapter is entitled "Climate and Technology,"" in which he discusses the harshness of the climate and the unimaginable lack of technology within Pétéga, the area where Riesman did almost all of his research (Riesman, 9). From creating a setting with his first chapter, Riesman moves on to the social organization of the area in which he is doing his research. Now that the reader has been properly oriented to this foreign land and foreign people, Riesman may begin on his research subjects, the Fulani. Chapter three, entitled "Fulani Social Structure,"" introduces the reader to the Fulani and their way of life through a rundown of how their society is structured. As a history textbook would have done, we are looking at a largely general view of the location and culture of a people. .
The next logical step in educating the reader would be to further break down Fulani life. Riesman now begins to dig deeper, although not into the minds of the people or culture but into the way the people and culture live and react to each other. Though Riesman is heading deeper into the Fulani culture, his history textbook conceptualization is still the same. His next chapter, "Life In the Wuro: Categories of People and Tasks,"" provides the reader with a more specific view of the Fulani and more specific examples of how the Fulani live. For the simple assistance of background information, wuro is translated as village (Riesman, 286). In practical purposes, a wuro is "Any sociogeographic unit that has a man who is recognized as its head, and whose members are joined by significant ties of kinship or neighborhood- (Riesman, 30). In this chapter, Riesman not only conceptualizes each individual; rather, he conceptualizes both the individual aspect as well as each category of aspects as it applies to the society as a whole.