2. Noun. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe but smaller or simpler than a state. ¹
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Definition of Chiefdom
1. the domain of a chief [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefdom
Literary usage of Chiefdom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Political evolution was attaining the level of the chiefdom. ... From this point
on, through the conquest of chiefdom by chiefdom, the size of political ..."
2. Stray Leaves of Science and Folk-lore by John Scoffern (1870)
"When it becomes a case of the chiefdom of an establishment for the manufacture
of arms or ammunition, then the war-association of these things does away ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"The leading chiefdom in the group so long controlled by Sweden, actually and
nominally, by virtue of conquest and immigration, was Vestfold, the site of the ..."
4. The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland: Being a Record of Excavation and by James Theodore Bent (1892)
"... chiefdom. ' Xext year, when the crops are gathered in, I shall return to the
kraal where my brother died, and assume the command of the country. ..."
5. Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile: Some Records of the Duties and by Clement Arthur Sykes (1903)
"Likewise was the leopard skin the badge of chiefdom. The large chiefdoms were
nearly always hereditary, ..."
6. The International Status of Fiji and the Political Rights, Liabilities by Charles St. Julian (1872)
"... each Supreme Chief was an absolute ruler within his own chiefdom, and each
such chiefdom was, therefore, a separate State. That the old Governmental ..."
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