Chiefdoms 1. The social structure of chiefdom is a hierarchical society in which some people have greater access than others to wealth‚ rank‚ status‚ authority and power. According to Scupin‚ many Polynesian chiefdoms rule of succession is based on primogeniture in which the eldest son assumed the status and realm of the father. This helped to avoid power struggles when a chief died. Chiefly Authority was more limited among the Trobrianders than was among the Hawaiians and Tahitians.
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arrival of Columbus‚ Arawak migrants had already been arriving from the Orinoco delta in South America. They were organized into cacicazgos or chiefdoms. Each chiefdom lead by cacique or chief. They called the island Quisqueya‚ meaning "mother of all lands"‚ and Ayiti‚ meaning "land of high mountains". By the time Columbus arrived‚ there were five chiefdoms:
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Zulu Culture Cynthia Jones ANT 101 Intro to Cultural Anthropology Instructor Shaun Sullivan July 23 2012 The Zulu tribe of KwaZulu-Natal became historically important in the early 19th century by the founder Shaka of the Zulu nation. I will be discussing the history of who many consider the first king along with the variations of the beliefs and values of Zulu people. The kinship systems along with the rituals and healing processes that have been around for centuries will be detailed
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dispute over land between the Navajo Tribe and Hopi Tribe has been an on going dispute since the late 1800 ’s. Although it might not seem like a high priority topic of conversation for most people‚ it is a very personal and sentimental topic for these two tribes. The Navajo population outnumbers the Hopi by a ratio of ten to one‚ while the amount of Hopi land has been reduced from its original size. To understand this complex situation between the two tribes‚ "A comprehensive solutionrather than
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Zulu Tribe Final Paper Joseph C. Duron ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Katie Custer 4/8/13 Way before the Zulu tribe became a thriving nation of their time‚ they were partly nomadic separated family groups. These groups were very self-sufficient based on their knowledge of herding cattle and horticulture. The Zulu might be the largest ethnic group in South Africa today because of their chiefdom separations and the military conquests they occurred. In this paper I
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My name is Shado. I am a twelve-year-old girl of the tribe Paspahegh. Strange events have been happening recently and I feel it is important to my tribe that I record these events because we must preserve our heritage and home‚ no matter what happens. April 26th‚ 1607 A gathering of men has arrived in the bay. They arrived two nights ago‚ with strange contraptions they call “guns.” They don’t possess any arrows or spears‚ which is strange along with the fact that they are white‚ and fully draped
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the Basseri. Iranian Basseri’s are a “pastoralist tribe that practice under a chiefdom under leaders known as Khans of various villages” (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010). Basseri people have the means to self-govern and reside in small settlements while raising their families and animals on the open ranges of Iran. Basseri pastoralists have a culture that is deeply rooted in a chiefdom that roams the region in small bands of tent villages. The tribe is pastoral since they don’t raise their own crops
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The Tuareg tribe can also be spelled as Touareg pronounced twa-reg. This tribe rules throughout the deserts of Africa‚ especially the region of the Sahara desert. Keeling (2012:28) reports that the Tuareg tribe consists of roughly 1 million members. The tribe lives across a range of countries in the north-western region of the Sahara. This includes countries such as Morocco‚ Niger‚ Algeria and Libya. Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 6th edition (2011:1) adds that due to various droughts and famine
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Masai Tribes The Masai people are a Nilotic ethnic group residing in Kenya and Northern Tanzania. They are the most well known tribe of the African ethnic groups. Their elaborate dress sense and array of colours that are distributed amongst the tribes clothing‚ is memorable for their expression through what they wear. The language spoken by the Masai people is Maa and they are also educated in the official languages of Kenya and Northern Tanzania‚ which are English and Swahili. Despite often being
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THE BHAR TRIBE Rajbhar or Bhar is one of the oldest Tribes of india.These tribes are also one of the Denotified tribes listed in the Gazette of India. These tribe are facing a huge problem of poverty‚ illetracy‚unemployement and descrimination from society. government is also not Intrested in the welfere if this tribe. Mr. Subhash chandra Rajbhar ‚Lecturer.Jagatpur Degree College.Varanasi has Taken the burden to provied these tribes their Right & Fascilities that Govenment has provided to them
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