> From: "John Hughes" <nysalor_at_...>
>Now the Far Point was resettled by the Ridgeleaper and his fellow exiles
>just a few years after Arim the Pauper founded the Tarsh tribe in the early
>fourteenth century. Though counted as part of Tarsh and sharing language and
>common ancestry, the Far Point was to a large extent independent, and
>developed its own customs and outlook. Far Pointers organised themselves
>into clans, which were rapidly discarded by rural and agricultural Tarsh,
>whose social system concentrates on family and tribe.
Given the recent discussions on marriage and clans ... is one of the
factors in the move from clan to tribe as basic social unit the change of
marriage patterns due to Lunar settlement of Tarsh? As more people marry
incomers (and not their traditional clan marriage partners) the clan social
unit becomes weakened.
Thom