multiplex society

is a simple society in which every relationship includes many levels and aspects. One's cousin is also one's co-worker, neighbor, teacher, chief, and father-in-law.

Gluckman has characterized relationships in traditional societies as 'multiplex' by which he meant that every relationship includes many levels and aspects. One's cousin is also one's co-worker, neighbor, teacher, chief, and father-in-law' It is this multiplexity that causes conflict to become so pervasive that it spills out of the social into natural and supernatural realms... people believe that conflict wrecks crops and health and sends spirits into uproar.' (peacock 'lens' 40)

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multiplex society