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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Chiefdoms"”.
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Sources of succession disputes in respect of ubukhosi / chieftainship with regard to the Cele and Amangwane chiefdoms, KwaZulu-Natal
… one area to the other, the formation of smaller chiefdoms and bigger chiefdoms and to the rise of the Zulu kingdom. The entire process of Zulu state formation has been through a series of succession disputes which exist among many clans even nowadays. Also, the role of successions runs from the …
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Analysis Of Prehistoric Ceramics From A Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44Le10), Lee County, Virginia
Chiefdoms located on the frontier of the Mississippian world have not been examined in great detail, yet they have the potential to provide evidence for the emergence of hierarchy and the interaction of hierarchical and egalitarian societies. Frontiers can help identify the emergence and …
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Does similarity equal relationship? An archaeological study of Tsindi, a Dzimbahwe site in North-eastern Zimbabwe
… of autonomous political formations (e.g. chiefdoms and states) generally within more than hundred kilometres of each other. If local histories that connect the Nhowe people of north-eastern Zimbabwe to Tsindi are correct, then the site was the capital of a Nhowe chiefdom. In broad terms …
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Factors influencing open defecation free status in areas practicing community led total sanitation: the case of Chiwala and Nkambo chifedoms of Masaiti district
… of ODF status practices in Chiwala and Nkambo Chiefdoms of Masaiti District. Concurrent study design was used which involved households survey of 368 households from the villages of Chiwala and Nkambo Chiefdoms that were either declared or verified to be ODF. Qualitative data was also collected …
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Factors influencing open defecation free status in areas practicing community led total sanitation: the case of Chiwala and Nkambo chifedoms of Masaiti district
… of ODF status practices in Chiwala and Nkambo Chiefdoms of Masaiti District. Concurrent study design was used which involved households survey of 368 households from the villages of Chiwala and Nkambo Chiefdoms that were either declared or verified to be ODF. Qualitative data was also collected …
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Organizational aspects of Mississippian settlement systems in western Kentucky
… process have implications for the way in which chiefdoms are viewed. These implications are incorporated into a dynamic model of Mississippian settlement and social organization in the Confluence Region.
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Sherds With Style: A Ceramic Analysis From A Protohistoric Site In Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.
… studying the effects of contact on Mississippian chiefdoms and their descendant population. The Starkville Archaeological Complex is an archaeological pattern of a distinct clustering of contact-era sites in the Blackland Prairie physiographic district of northeast Mississippi. Atkinson (1979) …
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Traditions and transitions : Islam and chiefship in Northern Mozambique, ca. 1850-1974
… between the Shirazi at the coast and the chiefdoms further into the interior resulted in a network of paramount chiefs and their subordinates making up the bulk of Muslim slave-raiders, who established the limits between themselves (the Maca, Muslims and 'civilized') and those to be …
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the nature and amount of Cahokia control over rural villages. I examine the fit of these models against archaeological data from the Divers and other regional sites. The analyses range …
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Shady Grove Site (22QU525) Quitman County, Mississippi: Analysis of Demographics and Mortuary Practices
… of the sociopolitical organization of smaller chiefdoms in the Mississippi Delta and Lower Mississippi Valley.</p>
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An archaeological study of the Zimbabwe culture capital of Khami, south-western Zimbabwe
… represents a continuity with the Woolandale chiefdoms that settled in the south-western parts of the country and in the adjacent areas of Botswana. On the basis of the chronological and material culture evidence, Khami is unlikely to have emerged out of Great Zimbabwe. However, more research …
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The history of the Barolong in the District of Mafikeng: a study of the Intra-Batswana ethnicity and political culture from 1852 to 1950
… which developed ultimately into independent chiefdoms such as the Ratlou, Ratshidi, Seleka and Rapulana (Molema,1950: 3). Their relationship during the difaqane and their encounter with the Boers and British, which marked the beginning of the conflict over the Barolong paramountcy between the …
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Prehistoric and Proto-historic communities in the eastern Upper Chao Phraya River Valley, Thailand: Analysis of site chronology, settlement patterns, and land use
… iron, wet rice agriculture, and development of chiefdoms. Although the iron age communities experienced some gradual changes (e.g., increasing regional integration and broader trade networks) and the possible movement of people from upland to lowland areas during the Late Iron phase, the KSTUT …
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A Theory of Statehood and Personality in International Law
… existed between Western states and the empires, chiefdoms, and other political entities found elsewhere in the world. This question was significant for the emergence of a stable concept of statehood. Chapter 3 examines the general rules about statehood. It rejects both the view that statehood …
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A grammatical sketch of Kunda Language
… sketch is based on data collected in the three chiefdoms of Mambwe district namely, Nsefu, Mnkhanya and Jumbe, through the use of six adult native speakers of Kunda language. Each of the informants was given lists of English words and sentences to provide equivalents in Kunda language. Data were …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
… Tel Tsaf or the Middle Chalcolithic societies as chiefdoms. The evidence of likely surplus and potential private ownership of animals without evidence of a central distribution system or regional hierarchy further differentiates Tel Tsaf from large Late Chalcolithic villages. However, the evidence …
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Cakaudrove : ideology and reality in a Fijian confederation
… chieftainship in Cakaudrove, a confederation of chiefdoms in eastern Fiji, and then contrasts it with the reality of power possession. According to the ideology, the paramount Tui Cakau was a godlike figure who, by mediating between the temporal and spiritual worlds, controlled the material and …
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Cakaudrove : ideology and reality in a Fijian confederation
… chieftainship in Cakaudrove, a confederation of chiefdoms in eastern Fiji, and then contrasts it with the reality of power possession. According to the ideology, the paramount Tui Cakau was a godlike figure who, by mediating between the temporal and spiritual worlds, controlled the material and …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
… Marquesan societies could be described as ‘chiefdoms’, chiefs lacked potency because they were not associated with vital prosperity rituals - arguably the basis of chiefly power in many parts of Polynesia. Various other individuals, particularly landholders and shamanistic priests, appeared …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
… Marquesan societies could be described as ‘chiefdoms’, chiefs lacked potency because they were not associated with vital prosperity rituals - arguably the basis of chiefly power in many parts of Polynesia. Various other individuals, particularly landholders and shamanistic priests, appeared …
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