The community is a cluster of hamlets with a headman elected by a council of hamlet heads from among the members of a dominant lineage.
Her principal field site was a cluster of hamlets, containing several hundred households, on an arid limestone plateau on Java's south coast.
She can pinpoint each person on the spider web of interconnection that threads through the cluster of hamlets, from Wainscott to Montauk.
The developments came as cease-fire monitors on the ground in Syria — still grappling with the killings of more than 100 villagers in Houla, a cluster of hamlets in the western part of the country — reported a new atrocity on Wednesday, saying 13 people had been discovered shot to death in eastern Syria, with hands bound behind their backs.
Before the arrival of the railway, Cheadle Hulme was a rural and agricultural cluster of hamlets.
All three trials randomized clusters of houses (hamlets, neighbourhoods or city sectors).
"Nobody should be astonished that big fortunes have found a certain fiscal advantage" in moving to this side of the border, said the mayor, whose domain covers Néchin and a cluster of other hamlets that form what is known as the Entity of Estaimpuis.
The latter include hundreds of small hamlets, clusters of farmsteads, and, deep in the mountains, a handful of historic monasteries.
Meanwhile, some entrepreneurs are buying up clusters of houses or entire abandoned hamlets.
OGINOSATO, Japan — A few years ago, one of my Japanese friends and her husband, both Osaka-born artists in their 30s, decided to move from Kyoto to Oginosato, a cluster of tiny agricultural hamlets just northeast of the city.
