Excerpt from Minority Groups in the Republic of Vietnam The Bahnar dialects are mon-khmer in origin and are related to those of the Stieng, M'nong, and Sedang, three other important tribal groups.2 Family structure is based on a bilateral kinship system, with neither male nor female dominant.3 The family and the village are the basic units of political organization. Villages are grouped into a regional association or towing for purposes of administering intervillage matters such as hunting, fishing, and farming rights. Clan structure or organization appears to be lacking.4 Extremely religious, the Bahnar interact continually with the animistic spirits surrounding them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.