Leadership and change in the Western Pacific : essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday / edited by Richard Feinberg & Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ :
Athlone Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Monographs on social anthropology ;
no. 66. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : leadership and change in the Western Pacific / Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and Richard Feinberg
- Sanctity and power on Anuta : Polynesian chieftainship revisited / Richard Feinberg
- Authority and egalitarianism : discourses of leadership on Nukulaelae Atoll / Niko Besnier
- A new king for Nanumaga : changing demands for leadership and authority in a Polynesian Atoll society / Barbara Lüem
- The absurd side of power in Samoa / Bradd Shore
- The Bellonese : high, low - and equal : leadership and change on a Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands / Torben Monberg
- Money, sovereignty and moral authority on Rotuma / Alan Howard
- Who are the chiefs? : chiefship in Lau, Eastern Fiji / Steven Hooper
- Leadership and Solomon Islanders' resistance to plantation-based political economy : roles and circumstances / Stephen Boggs and David W. Gegeo
- Priest and prince : integrating Kastom, Christianity and modernization in Kwara'ae leadership / David W. Gegeo and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo
- 'Identity crisis' : changing images of chieftainship in Manam society / Nancy Christine Lutkehaus
- From possession to apotheosis : transformation and disguise in the leadership of a cargo movement / Harvey Whitehouse
- Epilogue : old canvas, new leadership / William A. Shack.