Private politics : a multi-disciplinary approach to "Big-Man" systems

Author(s)

• Bakel, M. van
• Hagesteijn, Renée
• Velde, Piet van de

Bibliographic Information

Private politics : a multi-disciplinary approach to "Big-Man" systems

edited by Martin A. van Bakel, Renée R. Hagesteijn, Pieter van de Velde

（Studies in human society, v. 1）

E.J. Brill, 1986

Description and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction, Martin van Bakel. Renee Hagesteijn and Pieter van de Velde PART ONE THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Make your Son a King: Political Power through Matronage and Motherhood, Joke Schrijvers On settling Down and Becoming a `Big-Man', Sander E. van der Leeuw The `Big-Man': a Melanesian Model in Africa, Albert a Trouwborst Changing Resources, Changing Entrepreneurs, Peter Kloos The `Big-Man' and Ihumatar: Personal Power and Leadership in Melanesia and the Canadian Arctic, Jarich G. Oosten A Cart Burial from a Small Middle Iron Age Cemetery in Nijmegen, Tom Bloemers Early Samoan Leadership between Ascribed and Achieved, Martin A. van Bakel `Trading Places': Political Leadership in Early Southeast Asian States, Renee Hagesteijn `Big-Man', Tyrant, Chief: the Anomalous Starting Point of the State in Classical Greece, Edwards Ch. L. van der Vliet Social Inequality in the European Early Neolithic: Brandkeramik Leadership, Pieter van de Velde An Explanatory Model for Structural Change of a Political System, Alex T. Strating and G. Christiaan Uhlenbeck PART TWO CASE-STUDIES `Big-Man' and his Big Brother: some notes on Incorporation, Martin R. Doornbos The End of the `Big-Man': the image of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Henry Teunis The `Big-Man' and his Small Power-domain: the Rise and Fall of a Village Cacique in 20th Century Spain, Raymond Buve Police-Informers: `Big-Men' Failing their Followers, Heleen Louwe Rising form the Pits: Some Sri Lankan `Big-Men' of Gemming, Victoria J. Baker Up Street, Down Street, Front Street, Back Street: The context of St. Maarten politics, Franklin Tjon Sie Fat Rhetoric a Resource: Malta's Dom Minoff, Jeremy Boissevain PART THREE CONCLUSIONS `Big-Man': from Private Politics to Political Science, Martin van Bakel, Renee Hagesteijn, Pieter van de Velde Index

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Details

• NCID: BA00446706
• ISBN:
  • 9004078045
• LCCN: 87104160
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 220 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00446761