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age set
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age set

Formally organized social group consisting of every male (or female) of comparable age. In societies where the practice traditionally occurs (e.g., the Nuer of the southern Sudan or the Masai of Kenya and Tanzania), a person belongs, either from birth or from a determined age, to a named age set that passes through a series of life stages, or age grades, each of which has a distinctive status or social and political role. See also rite of passage; social status.



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11a-c), is a type likewise associated with warrior age sets among the northern Igbo.
Questions on each of the three surveys (KHS pre-and post-surveys, and PHS control survey) were divided into age sets and analyzed for attitudes towards drinking, and driving and behaviors for drinking and driving.
Loss of innocence turns even darker, more brooding, as middle age sets in; ravishing and moody, "Love + Lust," 1990-91, and "Untitled," 1991-93, offer creepy embodiments of unresolved fears and desires.
 
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