Usually, it is only the actors, who profit from the separation. After attaining their goals, they leave the people to sort out the imposed differences. Subsequently, the frontier demarcations, modify the original constitution, thus tampering with their authenticity. The interferences paves way for the loss or fading away of the confinements. The initial reason why most political actors draw the confinements is to allow proper and easy management and control of the governmental affairs. For instance, in Kenya, people speaking the same language were grouped by the British colonists in provinces. The temporal lines were intended to group ethnic together, to ease colonial administration hurdles related to language barriers and many others. Of course
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When friendship ties are made among different groups, the people engaged, view this action as a sign of honor and respect. Normally, for the remembrance of the actual moment, the involved parties may decide to give tokens to their allies. The acceptance of the gifts in question enlarges the size of the social bounders. On the other hand, in case of enmity between the boundaries, people are excluded and their land is confiscated thus narrowing the ancestral social confinements, culture, traditions etc. This example is common in most African contexts. E.g. in many African heritages, land is a treasure that belongs to the ancestry lineages, and if a piece of it is lost, the group construction is automatically affected. The group shrinks and loses its heritage by losing the ancestry traditions, which later on affects the social boundaries by constructing them due to the results of boundary …show more content…
However, Tilly, though he agreed to Barth's idea that the social boundaries should be fully understood, he insisted that a lot of attention should be paid to the dynamic forces that make the boundaries to change their original status. According to him, being in a position to comprehend the boundary construction systems was not easy. His argument was based on the fact that boundaries constantly changed depending on the different situations and circumstances that confronted to them (Tilly 2007:
When friendship ties are made among different groups, the people engaged, view this action as a sign of honor and respect. Normally, for the remembrance of the actual moment, the involved parties may decide to give tokens to their allies. The acceptance of the gifts in question enlarges the size of the social bounders. On the other hand, in case of enmity between the boundaries, people are excluded and their land is confiscated thus narrowing the ancestral social confinements, culture, traditions etc. This example is common in most African contexts. E.g. in many African heritages, land is a treasure that belongs to the ancestry lineages, and if a piece of it is lost, the group construction is automatically affected. The group shrinks and loses its heritage by losing the ancestry traditions, which later on affects the social boundaries by constructing them due to the results of boundary …show more content…
However, Tilly, though he agreed to Barth's idea that the social boundaries should be fully understood, he insisted that a lot of attention should be paid to the dynamic forces that make the boundaries to change their original status. According to him, being in a position to comprehend the boundary construction systems was not easy. His argument was based on the fact that boundaries constantly changed depending on the different situations and circumstances that confronted to them (Tilly 2007: