The Nambiquara's Political Maturity

David price did a study of 70 nambiquara chiefs, and he found that 61 of those chiefs almost never told anyone what to do at all. They led entirely by example. The typical leader begins making a garden and other men join him. He announces his intention to hunt peccary, and other men go along according to price. Now the nine other chiefs still had no enforcement power, but unlike those 61 chiefs, they actually did issue commands and tell people what to do. All of these more authoritarian style chiefs all lived in a northern area where the nambaquir were frequently under attack - which creates emer cy type conditions.