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Question: In seeking to understand how this system may have worked. however, the two research- ers incorporated strategies and information from other fields of study. Roderick McIntosh, for example, argues that the compound city of Jenne-Jeno probably included citizens of several ethnicities who nevertheless shared enough cultural values ("the Mande core rules") to keep the peace and work relatively harmoniously. In a similar but somewhat distinctive analysis. Susan McIntosh describes the spiritual-political authority that may have linked the settlements together (see Source 4.4). For each, the work of anthropologists and political theorists' observations of nineteenth and twentieth century Western African political systems informed the interpretation.