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chiefs

Description: Chiefs are leaders or rulers of communities, though the term may also refer to sports teams or other entities.
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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
2001 · Gail M. Gerhart, Jeffrey Herbst · Foreign Affairs · 1,527
Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia
1963 · Marshall D. Sahlins · Comparative Studies in Society and History · 1,289
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Improved Integral Formulation for Acoustic Radiation Problems
1968 · Harry A. Schenck · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1,031
Characterization of Engineered Channelrhodopsin Variants with Improved Properties and Kinetics
2009 · John Y. Lin, Michael Z. Lin, et al. · Biophysical Journal · 698
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Neo-traditionalism and the Limits of Invention in British Colonial Africa
2003 · THOMAS SPEAR · The Journal of African History · 535
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone
2014 · Daron Acemoglu, Tristan Reed, et al. · Journal of Political Economy · 523
Oligarchy
2011 · Jeffrey A. Winters · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 513
Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880–1980
1986 · Sally Falk Moore · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 490
Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa
2013 · Max Gluckman · Routledge eBooks · 431
The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930
1982 · William Beinart · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 382
The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti.
1952 · Jean Comhaire, K. A. Busia · American Sociological Review · 282
The unsettled land: state-making and the politics of land in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003
2007 · Choice Reviews Online · 240
Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania
1993 · Frederick Cooper, Steven Feierman · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 227
The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
1988 · Annette B. Weiner · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 226
Those who can do: Wealth, status, and reproductive success on Ifaluk
1985 · Paul W. Turke, L.L. Betzig · Ethology and Sociobiology · 216
West African chiefs : their changing status under colonial rule and independence
1970 · Michael Crowder, Obaro Ikimẹ · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 189
When Politicians Cede Control of Resources: Land, Chiefs, and Coalition-Building in Africa
2014 · Kate Baldwin · Comparative Politics · 180
How chiefs come to power: the political economy in prehistory
1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 176
Forced Labour in British West Africa: The Case of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast 1906–1927
1973 · Roger G. Thomas · The Journal of African History · 160
Contesting Land and Custom in Ghana : State, Chief and the Citizen
2008 · Janine M. Ubink, Kojo S. Amanor · Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 156
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Chiefs and colonial rule in Cameroon: inventing chieftaincy, French and British Style
1993 · Peter Geschiere · Africa · 156
Whose security? Deepening social conflict over ‘customary’ land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi
2007 · Pauline E. Peters, Daimon Kambewa · The Journal of Modern African Studies · 153
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Agents of the Regime? Traditional Leaders and Electoral Politics in South Africa
2018 · Daniel de Kadt, Horacio A. Larreguy · The Journal of Politics · 152
Chieftaincy in Ghana : culture, governance, and development
2006 · Irene Odotei, Albert K. Awedoba · Sub-Saharan Publishers eBooks · 143
In The Land of the Chiefs : Customary Law, Land Conflicts, and the Role of the State in Peri-Urban Ghana
2008 · Janine M. Ubink · Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 140
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Citation count: 24,450
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