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segment noun bit, branch, cantle, cantlet, chapter, chunk, component, constituent, detached part, detail, element, fraction, fractional part, fragment, ingredient, installment, measure, moiety, pars, part, piece, portion, section, sector, segmentum, share, slice, small part, subdivision See also: chapter, component, constituent, cross, dichotomize, disjoint, divide, division, element, factor, ingredient, installment, interest, member, moiety, parcel, part, partition, portion, section, separate, sever, share, split, subdivision, subheading How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Rather it extrapolates from numerous twentieth century studies of pastoral-nomadic, segmentary lineage (19) societies in order to frame specific themes of pre-Islamic poetry in a social context. It seems to me that it is absolutely necessary to emphasize that the traditional Hmong society in Southeast Asia is rural, based on a communitarian group, and is fundamentally segmentary in its social, economical, political and religious organization. Where you find an entrenched, segmentary client society, as in southern Italy, it doesn't. |
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