A Tribal Mediator Can Help You Get Out of a Blood Feud

The tribal structure is like a gigantic fam tree tumbling down from a single ancestor into more and more granular families. The mediator will often come from someone on the same branch who doesn't have a preferred relationship to one side or the other. Neither side is bound to accept any of the decisions or terms that the mediator suggests. There are no state institutions, oka no courts. Or what do you do when the tribes of a region need to deal with national governments? When those situations actualy ill let a british anthropologist, william lancaster, describe it.