“酋邦”这一概念是美国学者奥伯格 195 5年根据他对美洲低地土著社会的民族学研究提出的。较早和较系统地提出并阐述酋邦问题的学者是美国人类学家塞维斯 ,他将原始社会依其社会演化阶段分为三类 ,即游团、部落与酋邦。“酋邦”一词很快成为一个时髦的概念 ,成为原始社会演变 The concept of chiefdoms was proposed by the American scholar Auberge, based on his ethnological study of the indigenous communities in the lowlands of the Americas, in 1955. The earliest and more systematically proposed and elucidated chiefdom scholar is the American anthropologist Severs, who classified the primitive society into three categories according to its stage of social evolution, namely tours, tribes and chiefs. The term “chiefdoms” quickly became a fashionable concept that became the evolution of primitive society