Editing Caste (section)

====Central Africa====
[[Ethel M. Albert]] in 1960 claimed that the societies in [[Central Africa]] were caste-like social stratification systems.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Socio-Political Organization and Receptivity to Change: Some Differences between Ruanda and Urundi |first=Ethel M. |last=Albert |journal=[[Southwestern Journal of Anthropology]] |volume=16 |number=1 |date=Spring 1960 |pages=46–74 |doi=10.1086/soutjanth.16.1.3629054 |s2cid=142847876}}</ref> Similarly, in 1961, Maquet notes that the society in [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] can be best described as castes.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda: A Study of Political Relations in a Central African Kingdom |first=Jacques J. |last=Maquet |year=1962 |pages=135–171 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-19-823168-4}}</ref> The [[Tutsi]], noted Maquet, considered themselves as superior, with the more numerous [[Hutu]] and the least numerous [[Twa]] regarded, by birth, as respectively, second and third in the hierarchy of Rwandese society. These groups were largely endogamous, exclusionary and with limited mobility.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Power in Ruanda |first=Helen |last=Codere |journal=[[Anthropologica]] |volume=4 |number=1 |year=1962 |pages=45–85 |jstor=25604523 |doi=10.2307/25604523}}</ref>