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<blockquote data-quote="Flobby" data-source="post: 5342830" data-attributes="member: 8569">Tribe is kind of a loaded word. The roles are going to depend on region and/or period. So there will be no &quot;official&quot; terms for the roles. Even the word shaman is artificial since religion varies so greatly from tribe/nation to tribe/nation. Such terms are not always useful to describe people and are often frowned upon in modern anthropology. Just look a the wide variety in North America. That said - small groups of people don't need many defined roles so you'll have some sort of leader or council of elders or maybe both. I've heard of some that had a council everyday issues and than a warchief for well, war. If the men are the hunters they may also be the soldiers but solders could be a seperate more elite group. And then some sort of holy person that may act as an adviser to the leader. Any other roles of building, gathering, and hunting would be split between sexes but just how strictly they will be divided also differs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flobby, post: 5342830, member: 8569"] Tribe is kind of a loaded word. The roles are going to depend on region and/or period. So there will be no "official" terms for the roles. Even the word shaman is artificial since religion varies so greatly from tribe/nation to tribe/nation. Such terms are not always useful to describe people and are often frowned upon in modern anthropology. Just look a the wide variety in North America. That said - small groups of people don't need many defined roles so you'll have some sort of leader or council of elders or maybe both. I've heard of some that had a council everyday issues and than a warchief for well, war. If the men are the hunters they may also be the soldiers but solders could be a seperate more elite group. And then some sort of holy person that may act as an adviser to the leader. Any other roles of building, gathering, and hunting would be split between sexes but just how strictly they will be divided also differs. [/QUOTE]

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