General Studies · Arrangements

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced, yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences: 1. Relying on narrative structure alone, indigenous significances of nineteenth century San folktales are hard to determine. 2. Using their supernatural potency, benign shamans transcend the levels of the San cosmos in order to deal with social conflict and to protect material resources and enjoy a measure of respect that sets them apart from ordinary people. 3. Selected tales reveal that they deal with a form of spiritual conflict that has social implications and concern conflict between people and living or dead malevolent shamans. 4. Meaning can be elicited, and the tales contextualized, by probing beneath the narrative of verbatim, original-language records and exploring the connotations of highly significant words and phrases.