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How Chiefs Come to Power
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Timothy K. Earle
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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This book is basically about power-how people came to acquire it and the implications that contrasting paths to power had for the development of societies. Earl
Chiefdoms
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Timothy K. Earle
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.
Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Robin Beck
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era.
Chiefdom Politics and Alien Law
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Sandra Burman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher:

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Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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History and oral traditions in southeastern Africa -- Oral traditions in the reconstruction of southern African history -- Shipwreck survivor accounts from the