Maasai-Age-sets. The basic Maasai political and social structure is their rigid system of age-sets (or age grades; strictly-speaking, an age-grade is a stage within the age-set). These apply primarily to men; women automatically become members of the age-set of their husbands.
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1 American literature (in American literature: Lyric fictionists) 2  relationship to Santa Fe (in Santa Fe (New Mexico, United States))  The University of Adelaide - Death Comes for the Archbishop. Death Comes for the Archbishop, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1927. The novel is based on the lives of Bishop Jean Baptiste LâAmy and his vicar Father Joseph Machebeut and is considered emblematic of the authorâs moral and spiritual concerns.