Achuar life centers on the domestic household, which consists of a basic family unit often including close relatives.

The Achuar follow an astronomical calendar of seasonal resources, like the fish season, which is divided into days, moons, and year.

Self-control is a fundamental aspect of Achuar beliefs, which is taught at a young age.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

There are thousands of square miles of salt pan which are hideous.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

Here in an evening Persians enjoy many of the things which are important to them: poetry, water, the moon, a beautiful face.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

A group speaking a separate " language " is often seen as having a greater claim to being a separate " people ", and thus to be more deserving of its own independent state, while a group speaking a " dialect " tends to be seen not as " a people " in its own right, but as a sub-group, part of a bigger people, which must content itself with regional autonomy.

A new element of Laconophilia by Karl Otfried Müller, who linked Spartan ideals to the supposed racial superiority of the Dorians, the ethnic sub-group of the Greeks to which the Spartans belonged.

A sub-group burial could cluster with other sub group burials to form a cemetery or burial group which in turn could be clustered with a building such as church to produce a " phase ".

The Serer people to which they are a sub-group of are the oldest inhabitants of Senegambia along with the Jola people.

Hornbostel and Sachs ' criterion for determining which sub-group an instrument falls into is that if the resonator can be removed without destroying the instrument, then it is classified as 31.

-This theory is based on the United Kennel Club's ( the leading ' working dog ' registry in the U. S. in terms of numbers of dogs registered ) classification system which, within the scenthounds, includes a sub-group known as " Cur Dogs ".

Sibley and Ahlquist's landmark DNA-DNA hybridisation studies ( see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy ) led to them placing the families traditionally contained within the Pelecaniformes together with the grebes, cormorants, ibises and spoonbills, New World vultures, storks, penguins, albatrosses, petrels, and loons together as a sub-group within a greatly expanded order Ciconiiformes, a radical move which by now has been all but rejected: their " Ciconiiformes " merely assembled all early advanced land-and seabirds for which their research technique delivered insufficient phylogenetic resolution.

The Joint Bi-level Image experts Group ( JBIG ) is the second sub-group of the same working group ( ISO / IEC JTC 1 / SC 29 / WG 1 ) as the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which focuses on binary images.

The JPEG ( Joint Photographic Experts Group ) as a sub-group of ISO / IEC JTC 1 / SC 29 / WG 1-Coding of Still Pictures ( working as a joint team with ITU-T SG 16 ) have developed various standards, which have been published by ITU-T and / or ISO / IEC.

The papers of the Sphere Group, a sub-group of the Golden Dawn founded by Florence Farr which experimented with Enochian magic, have been edited and published in Kuntz, ( 1996 ).

A sub-group of the Breslov sect, colloquially known as Na Nachs, use the Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman mantra, which is based on the Hebrew letters of Rebbe Nachman's name.

Over the generations, the Bushmen of Southern Africa have continued to be absorbed into the African population, particularly the Griqua sub-group, which is an Afrikaans-speaking people of predominantly Khoisan that has certain unique cultural markers which set them apart from other Africans.

Static Shock is a show in which all superpowered characters are granted powers by a large chemical explosion later nicknamed " the Big-Bang " are dubbed " Meta-Humans " or " Bang-Babies "-- and are a sub-group of Metahumans.

A new element was introduced into Laconophilia by Karl Otfried Müller, who linked Spartan ideals to the supposed racial superiority of the Dorians, the ethnic sub-group of the Greeks to which the Spartans belonged.

The Dardic group has traditionally been defined as a sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages which experienced strong influence from the Nuristani and East Iranian languages.

Led by Pier Ferdinando Casini, Lorenzo Cesa and Rocco Buttiglione, the faction included also Mario Tassone ( co-leader with Buttiglione of a sub-group composed of former members of the CDU, which controlled more than 15 % of party delegates ), Michele Vietti, Luca Volontè, Francesco D ' Onofrio, Maurizio Ronconi, Francesco Bosi and Antonio De Poli, and gained the support of at least 45 % of party members.

Harkis should not be confused with the Évolués, which in this context refers to the sub-group of Francized Algerians ( it also refers to similar groups in other colonial possessions ).

These languages, together with several other related languages, are known as the Bihari languages, which form a sub-group of the Eastern Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.

Unni is a sub-group of Pushpaka Brahmin ( Ambalavasi ) caste, which comes under the Pancha-Dravida regional group of Brahmins.

Dun ( from Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn respectively, meaning fort, and cognate with Old Welsh din, from which Welsh dinas " city " is derived ) is now used both as a generic term for a fort ( mainly used to describe a sub-group of hill forts ) and also for a specific variety of Atlantic roundhouse.

Made paramount chief of the " Emigrant Thembus ", a breakaway and sub-group to the Thembus, Matanzima's support of the South African government's Bantu Authorities Act ( 1951 ), which looked to foster traditional African leadership structures, gave the Act credibility in the eyes of many chiefs, but saw him part ways with Mandela politically ( although the two initially remained friends, with Matanzima acting as best man at Mandela's wedding ).

They speak the Dagbani language which belongs to the More-Dagbani sub-group of Gur languages.

Commune members have emotional bonds to the whole group rather than to any sub-group, and the commune is experienced with emotions which go beyond just social collectivity.