Chiefs today : traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state

Author(s)

• White, Geoffrey M. (Geoffrey Miles)
• Lindstrom, Lamont

Bibliographic Information

Chiefs today : traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state

edited by Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom

（Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific）

Stanford University Press, c1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [311]-331

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780804728492

Description

Thirty-five years after the first new Pacific states gained their independence, traditional leaders remain important political actors throughout the region. The political environs of the South Pacific, freshly populated with presidents, prime ministers, members of parliament, and local judiciary officers, are also increasingly crowded with newly visible chiefs. Far from being premodern relics, the chiefs who operate within modern Pacific states today figure significantly in attempts to fashion national identities and manage the direction of political and economic development. This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in thirteen Pacific societies. In some states, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Chiefs today Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey M. White
• 2. The persistence of Chiefly authority in Western Samoa Cluny Macpherson
• 3. Rank and leadership in Tonga Kerry James
• 4. The kingly - populist divergence in Tongan and Western Samoan Chiefly systems Robert W. Franco
• 5. The reemergence of Maori Chiefs: 'devolution' as a strategy to maintain tribal authority Toon van Meijl
• 6. Chiefs, politics, and the power of tradition in contemporary Fiji Stephanie Lawson
• 7. Ritual status and power politics in modern rotuma Alan Howard and Jan Rensel
• 8. Traditional leaders today in the federated states of micronesia Eve C. Pinsker
• 9. A micronesian chamber of Chiefs? The 1990 federated states of micornesia constitutional convention Glenn Petersen
• 10. Irooj Ro Ad: measures of Chiefly ideology and practice in the Marshall Isalnds Laurence M. Carucci
• 11. Chiefs in Vanuatu today Lamont Lindstrom
• 12. The discourse of Chiefs: notes on a Melanesian society Geoffrey M. White
• 13. Tuesday's Chiefs revisited Roger M. Keesing
• 14. Constructing and contesting Chiefly authority in contemporary Tana Toraja, Indonesia Kathleen M. Adams
• 15. Conclusions: Chiefs and states today Peter Larmour
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780804728515

Description

Thirty-five years after the first new Pacific states gained their independence, traditional leaders remain important political actors throughout the region. The political environs of the South Pacific, freshly populated with presidents, prime ministers, members of parliament, and local judiciary officers, are also increasingly crowded with newly visible chiefs. Far from being premodern relics, the chiefs who operate within modern Pacific states today figure significantly in attempts to fashion national identities and manage the direction of political and economic development. This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in thirteen Pacific societies. In some states, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom. Elsewhere, chiefs operate as a mechanism of local accommodation to centralized state authority, facilitating state operations in the local community. In still other states, local chiefs have risen up against central authority, leading their communities in opposition to the state and its deprecations. In each case, the chief is a focus for cultural struggle in the border zones of local, national, and transnational politics.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Chiefs today Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey M. White
• 2. The persistence of Chiefly authority in Western Samoa Cluny Macpherson
• 3. Rank and leadership in Tonga Kerry James
• 4. The kingly - populist divergence in Tongan and Western Samoan Chiefly systems Robert W. Franco
• 5. The reemergence of Maori Chiefs: 'devolution' as a strategy to maintain tribal authority Toon van Meijl
• 6. Chiefs, politics, and the power of tradition in contemporary Fiji Stephanie Lawson
• 7. Ritual status and power politics in modern rotuma Alan Howard and Jan Rensel
• 8. Traditional leaders today in the federated states of micronesia Eve C. Pinsker
• 9. A micronesian chamber of Chiefs? The 1990 federated states of micornesia constitutional convention Glenn Petersen
• 10. Irooj Ro Ad: measures of Chiefly ideology and practice in the Marshall Isalnds Laurence M. Carucci
• 11. Chiefs in Vanuatu today Lamont Lindstrom
• 12. The discourse of Chiefs: notes on a Melanesian society Geoffrey M. White
• 13. Tuesday's Chiefs revisited Roger M. Keesing
• 14. Constructing and contesting Chiefly authority in contemporary Tana Toraja, Indonesia Kathleen M. Adams
• 15. Conclusions: Chiefs and states today Peter Larmour
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA35822713
• ISBN:
  • 0804728496
  • 0804728518
• LCCN: 97008986
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 343 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 270
  • LCC : GN663
  • DC21 : 306.2/0995
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Oceania -- Politics and government
  • LCSH : Chiefdoms -- Oceania
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27341458