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Chiefdom

In Sierra Leone, a political subdivision equivalent to a municipality.

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Fahnbulleh, Who led the delegation admonished that they were engaging district and chiefdom stakeholders to not only inform them about the deadly Marburg Virus which was recently discovered in Cave Dwelling-Fruit Eating Bats in their districts and chiefdoms, but to also advise them to stay away from bats

HEALTH MINISTRY CONCLUDES STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON MARBURG VIRUS IN 3 DISTRICTS

On the basis of the national estimates used for these analyses, stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years are underreported in Bombali Sebora chiefdom; use of all available sources is needed to improve death reporting in this chiefdom.

Reporting Deaths Among Children Aged <5 Years After the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic--Bombali District, Sierra Leone, 2015-2016

Refocusing raids to the east was one way in which Moorosi and his chiefdom responded to the Cape's encroachment, and the continued raids into the Reserve were part of the slow tapering off of their earlier practices.

Cattle, raiding and disorder in Southern African history

The important earlier themes of patronage and the rejection of state formation theory are somewhat abandoned as Pfoh embraces the anthropological model of peer-polity relations, an argument usually related to the organization of chiefdoms and early state relations.

The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Tradition has it that the Qwabe and Zulu chiefdoms were born when two brothers feuded over their inheritance.

The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa

Instead, we must begin long before her birth with the forging of the paramount chiefdom led by her kinsman Powhatan in the late sixteenth century.

Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian resistance in seventeenth-century Virginia

Carneiro, "The Nature of the Chiefdom as Revealed by Evidence from the Cauca Valley of Colombia", Profiles in Cultural Evolution, A.T.

Leveraging African traditional rulers for mission success in Africa

Based on archaeological data it is time to re-evaluate the stratified chiefdom of the Leeward Society Islands.

Marae reflections: on the evolution of stratified chiefdoms in the Leeward Society Islands

Finally, Keegan comes full circle by pointing out a unique characteristic of the avunculocal chiefdom: "At each succession a stranger king arises, because the sisters of the cacique in one village are married to caciques in other villages in order to cement alliances" (p.

Taino Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King

These conditions favored the emergence of a complex chiefdom-based social organization of the chiefdom type.

The diversity of social forms in pre-colonial Amazonia

In 1640, Massachusetts legislators conceded that it was the colonists' responsibility to keep cattle from destroying Indians' corn, while in the Chesapeake it was less likely for colonists to even consider native grievances, especially after the subjugation of the Powhatan chiefdom in 1646.

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

He represents the community at chiefdom level ( Sierra Leone is split into hundreds of chiefdoms ( and is at the vanguard of mobilising the community after its return since the war and its accompanying terror.