PEP | Article - Kazak Social Structure: By Alfred E. Hudson. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 20. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938. 105 pp.

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Abstract

We know very little about Kazak or as it is usually called Kirghiz society. This is a society with well-marked class distinctions. Trade is connected with a ceremonial form of fraternization

(p. 73). The levirate and sororate are practiced, but the levirate sometimes takes the form of a guardianship (p. 53). In the evolution of legal customs the principle of compensation gradually replaced blood revenge and the lex talionis (p. 69).