Abstract
Intervillage systems are clusters of communities that, by virtue of their systematic transactions with one another, form a larger social unit. The Kula that Malinowski studied reflects the operation of an intervillage system, as do also the market centers and their satellite communities in many parts of the world. There is reason to believe that intervillage systems, or, more generally stated, intercommunity systems, exist at all levels of national development and are crucial units in certain types of social change. Although our general ignorance of their characteristics is sufficient reason for studying them, they have the additional feature of being the largest natural system that can reasonably be studied by direct field methods. They thus provide an important setting within which to investigate inter-system transactions and the transformation of both the component systems and the larger incorporating structure.
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