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• People described the region as basically one of thick forests, interspersed with swidden settlements, lorded over by despotically powerful janmis.

• The altar represented the same sacred gathering around a common centre as did the hearth in the first human settlements.

• I would suggest extreme variation, especially in the hinterland settlements.

• Small, kinship-based settlements were headed by a leader, called mbuyi or mtwa, who held secular as well as ritual authority.

• What is impor tant is how these settlements were perceived by locals and the upheaval they brought to their lives.

• They were designed as autonomous settlements capable of guaranteeing work, housing and services efficiently and cheaply, within a territory totally lacking any kind of urbanization.

• While fields were enclosed, settlements were dispersed, farm organisation made geometric, the inside of tenant farmhouses were not rationalised or subdivided into individual spaces.

• The opportunities to monopolize trade flows are influenced by the number of alternative routes that have to be controlled and the distribution of settlements.

• In addition, membership in security-oriented organizations reduces the length of rivalry as such organizations provide instruments for the peaceful negotiation of settlements.

• Neighbouring villages would typically share a common grazing area to prevent stock rustlers from attacking boys caring for livestock far from the settlements.

• If refugees were free to live outside settlements, and were offered appropriate supportive assistance there, their capacity for developmental progress might be expected to increase.

• In these areas it is quite common for disagreements between individuals from the two groups to degenerate into ethnic conflicts engulfing several settlements.

• The courts later adopted a less restrictive concept of locality, recognising that settlements might embrace more than one parish.

• The same cultural categories that legitimised the welfare settlements of the past are reflected in the heated welfare debates of today.

• In fact, the cosmopolitan and patriarchal character of the new settlements increasingly challenged the more formal political constructions inherited from an ancient past.