Clans: from kinship to capitalism - Part one
Love Scotland: Stories of Scotland's History and Nature
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The Invention of Tradition
Every society in terms of human development has indulged in the invention of tradition. Many things that we have taken from our ancestors equally invented, so we should not feel superior to the way these communities behaved. What is absolutely clear, however, is the fact that these organizations existed. They were designed for security, they were designed also for aggression and for making war. When we start raison d'etre disappeared, clanship in terms of the historical nature of clanship simply evaporated relatively quickly.
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