>Absolutely, your brightest daughters stay within the clan, and the prettiest
>are married off for political purposes.
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>I wonder if this might be an explanation for the RW tendency to consider
>female education less important (as exemplified in modern Afghanistan).
In the RW this originates with Jewish religious law and adopted by Christians and Muslims. The attitude was still extant in England when I was at school only 30 years ago but clan social groupings had disappeared centuries before.
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