chiefship

Examples

• All

• These same spotted skins are associated with chiefship by peoples throughout central Africa, and usually it is the prerogative of chiefs to own or wear them.

  Academic text (1990)

• The abstract noun 'want' is, in this larger sense, employed for both "chiefship" and "paramount chiefship" or "kingship," although when in need to be specific, the Aruwund will use 'want yaav' to refer to the latter.

  Academic text (2008)

• Chiefship too is effectually dead, though there are attempts here and there to revive it.

  Academic text (2002)

• Nkisi Mbenza in eastern Mayombe, where it was associated with chiefship.

  Academic text (2002)

• However, Nigerian Mambila did not have the same type of institutionalized chiefship found in Cameroon.

  Academic text (1994)

• In Cameroon, elements of the chiefship found among the neighboring Tikar were adopted in precolonial times, lending political authority to the Mambila institution.

  Academic text (1994)

• The abstract noun 'want' is, in this larger sense, employed for both "chiefship" and "paramount chiefship" or "kingship," although when in need to be specific, the Aruwund will use 'want yaav' to refer to the latter.

  Academic text (2008)

• In at least one chiefship, a single bell was among the medicines buried in the nkisi nsi, the medicated shrine of the domain (MacGaffey 2000:169).

  Academic text (2002)

• I's last prime minister, for example, first held the task of guarding the royal lavatories, moving up through a minor chiefship and eventually ascending as chief of royal cooks and butchers, before being appointed prime minister at the prompting of the queen mother in the 1870s.

  Academic text (2005)

• Oral tradition has the establishment of chiefship in the different regions to have been accompanied by setting aside ritual groves similar to ancestral shrines (Kimambo 1969:87).

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

L

leadership

vschiefship

429 3.4

Position of being in charge of a group or organization

is a formal office or defined period rather than a general role

H

helm

vschiefship

61 6.7

Control of a group or organization by its leader

is the formal office or specific period rather than a figurative phrase

R

rulership

vschiefship

2 7.5

The time a leader has power over a country

is the broader office or period of being the top person not sovereign rule

H

headship

vschiefship

• Formal

1 7.4

The position of being the leader of a group or organization

is the more general position or period across all social contexts

C

chieftaincy

vschiefship

9.9

The position and power of a tribal leader who leads people

is the general position or period of being the top person in any group

C

chieftainship

vschiefship

8.6

A position where a person leads a tribe or clan

is the broader office or period of being the top person in any group

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology