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It is comparatively simple to describe the main features of the smallest of the Batak corporate groups, the village; and the highest, the tribal group. Below the village there is only the hamlet; above the tribal group there is only the Batak people as such. It is what lies between these two extremes that presents the difficulty.
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Vergouwen, J.C. (1964). The Corporate Communities (Haradjaon). In: The Social Organisation and Customary Law of the Toba-Batak of Northern Sumatra. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1035-6_5
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