this relationship well: “In a healthy society the private and the public are not mutually exclusive, nor in competition with each other. They are, instead, two halves of a whole, two poles of a paradox. They work together dialectically, helping to create and nurture one another.”39 The community defines the taboos and the rules of marriage, sex, war, farming, leadership and hunting for the community. In all cases the good of the community is to be sought and anything that would harm it rejected.