Leadership and change in the Western Pacific : essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday
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Bibliographic Information
Leadership and change in the Western Pacific : essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday
(London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology, v. 66)
Berg, 2004
- : cloth
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published: London : Athlone Press, 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - leadership and change in the Western Pacific
- sanctity and power - Polynesian chieftainship revisited
- authority and egalitarianism - discourses of leadership on Nukulaelae Atoll
- a new king for Nanumanga - changing demands for leadership and authority in a Polynesian Atoll society
- the absurd side of power in Samoa
- the Bellonese - high, low and equal - leadership and change on a Polynesian outlier in the Solomon Islands
- money, sovereignty and moral authority on Rotuma
- who are the chiefs? chiefship in Lau, Eastern Fiji
- leadership and Solomon Islanders' resistance to plantation-based political economy - roles and circumstances
- priest and prince - integrating Kastom, Christianity and modernization in Kawra'ae leadership
- identity crisis - changing images of chieftainship in Manam society
- from possession to apotheosis - transformation and disguise in the leadership of a cargo movement
- epilogue - old canvass, new leadership.
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