1985:742–43). But additionally, a chiefdom is a society where there is no specialized administrative control apparatus and legal system. A chiefdom’s decision-making hierarchy lacks internal differentiation (H. Wright 1977:381; Earle 1990:76). This distinguishes chiefdoms from states (H. Wright 1984; 1985). Chiefdoms also differ from states in that states, like tribes, base status in part on achievement. That is, a chiefdom is “kinship politics taken as far as it can go” (Maisels 1990:9), while in