chieftaincies

Issues of segmentation are linked to ethnography of tribal societies that fall within two main subtypes in Islamic societies, egalitarian or segmentary tribes, and hierarchical chieftaincies.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

It was based on three principles: a state with a decentralized federal structure, recognition of the ethnic chieftaincies in the hills, and their right of secession after a number of years.

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

It was based on three principles: a state with a decentralized federal structure, recognition of the ethnic chieftaincies in the hills, and their right of secession after a number of years.

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

Nkavakava and Mangeke's identity in relation to Ngungunyana, for instance, is less important to Rosalina than their relationship as brothers; and the specific names of the chieftaincies where the two men settled concern her less than the fact that they separated, found land that they "liked," married local women, and settled down to father the children and grandchildren who make up her paternal family tree.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The legitimacy of each of these chieftaincies has been challenged during the twentieth century, and it may be that the tenuousness of their family's political authority is what prompted these women to give unusually loquacious responses to questions about the history of their clan.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Most chieftaincies that I visited consisted of from three to five miganga, always including ka mukulu, "the chief's place."

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

A colonial regulado, Facazisse was created in 1900 when the Portuguese carved up the politically troublesome chiefdom (which they knew as Cossine) into nineteen small chieftaincies, each to be governed by one of Magudzu's descendants.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

When people were organized on the landscape into chieftaincies, there was a degree of ceramic continuity across a community of potters roughly corresponding to the boundaries of the chiefdom.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The northern slopes of these mountains, properly called the North Caucasus, contain various ethnic chieftaincies that are now part of the Russian Federation; the region to the south of the highest ridges is called the Transcaucasus — the land of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Where Europe Vanishes 2000

The northern slopes of these mountains, properly called the North Caucasus, contain various ethnic chieftaincies that are now part of the Russian Federation; the region to the south of the highest ridges is called the Transcaucasus — the land of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Where Europe Vanishes 2000