Avillage head,village headman orvillage chief is the community leader of a village or a small town.[1]
InBrunei, village head is calledketua kampung orketua kampong in theMalay language. It is an administrative post which leads the community of avillage administrative division, the third and lowestsubdivision of the country.
In China, village head (simplified Chinese:村长;traditional Chinese:村長;pinyin:cūn zhǎng) is a local government or tribal post. The village headman is the person appointed to administer an area that is often a singlevillage.
The headman has several official duties in the village, and is sometimes seen as amediator in disputes and a general “fixer” of village or individuals problems.
Examples of headmanship have been observed among theZuni,[2]!Kung, andMehinacu,[3] among others. Nearby tribal leaders recognized or appointed by theChinese were known astusi (tu-szu;Chinese:土司;pinyin:tǔsī;Wade–Giles:t'u3-szu1), although they could command larger areas than a single village.
The village head inIndonesia is calledKepala Desa.
Generally inMalaysia, the village head is calledKetua Kampung, except for theproto Malay village where the position is calledBatin. Ketua Kampung was appointed and assisted byMajlis Pengurusan Komuniti Kampung (Village Community Management Board). InSarawak, the head of a traditionallong house is calledTuai Rumah.
Head of abarangay or village in the Philippines
In theQing and earlyRepublican era,dibao were officially appointed village officials, usually selected from the local landowning class and responsible for land use and boundaries in their jurisdiction.
InEdo period Japan, the village head was callednanushi (名主) and was in charge of tax collection, general village administration, management of public natural resources (such as mountain, field, river and ocean) of the village, as well as negotiating with the territorial lord as the representative of the villagers.[4]
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