Although, therefore, the village ranking system has a certain correspondence to the dominant urban ranking system, the two systems do not fit together easily. Relationships between individuals on the two sides reflect these somewhat inconsistent elements: the general inferiority of village to town, the rough correspondence of the two systems, and the gulf of unsociability between them.
Sakaltutan had very few relationships of the first type. One close agnate of K lineage was living in Ankara with an Ankara wife. He visited the village during my stay, bringing her with him. He apparently ran a permanent stall in a street market. He and his wife dressed like townspeople, and he spoke of the blessings of a town education for his children. Otherwise Sakaltutan's social contacts with town consisted mainly of those formed by the migrant labourers (p. 64). As far as I was able to judge, he social life of these migrants in town was largely spent among other villagers. The system of contracting and subcontracting (p. 65) meant that often the immediate employer was another villager. The migrant labourers seem to have formed their own ub-system within the town, and to have lived very largely within it. For the six men who worked in the factory in Kayseri on a permanent basis the situation was perhaps