Chiefdom

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Map of the Chiefdoms in Sierra Leone until mid-2017

A chiefdom (in German about tribal principality or chieftainship ) is a geographical area of ​​a government system based on the exercise of power by a "chief". It is based on the anthropological idea of ​​“a group of people who come together for the benefit of all under the leadership of one person”. A chief usually also combines economic control .

The system of the chiefdom as a local administrative unit was probably developed in Africa at the end of the 19th century . The name Chiefdom has been known from Ireland since at least the 12th century . Nowadays (as of July 2017) the system of chiefdoms is only found on a national level in India , Sierra Leone (190 chiefdoms since mid-2017, each with a Paramount Chief as chair) and Polynesia (including Wallis and Futuna ). Historically, it was also common in Hawaii .

See also

literature

  • Timothy Earle: Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology. Cambridge University Press, Department of Anthropology / University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles 1991, ISBN 0-521-40190-9 .
  • Tristan Reed, James A. Robinson: The Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Harvard University, Department of Government / Department of Economics, Cambridge 2013. (online)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chiefdom definition. Governmentvs. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ Timothy Earle: Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology. Cambridge University Press, Department of Anthropology / University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles 1991, p. 2.
  3. ^ Mary W. Helms: Access to Origins: Affines, Ancestors and Aristocrats. University of Texas Press, Austin 1998, p. 4.
  4. ^ Robert L. Carneiro : What Happened at Flashpoint? Conjectures on Chiefdom Formation at the Very Moment of Conception. In: Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 1998, pp. 19ff.
  5. ^ D. Blair Gibson, Bettina Arnold: Celtic chiefdom, Celtic state. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, pp. 163ff.
  6. ↑ Suhas Chatterjee: Mizo Chiefs and the Chiefdom. MD Publications PVT, New Delhi 1995, ISBN 81-85880-72-7 .
  7. ^ President Koroma Declares 41 New Chiefdoms. AllAfrica, July 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ Chiefdom Countries. Governmentvs. Retrieved July 11, 2017.