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Leadership and change in the Western Pacific : essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 416 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 66
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 96-27743
- ISBN
- 0485195666
- LCCN
- 96014668
- OCLC
- 34474772
- Title
- 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.
- Imprint
- London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1996.
- Series
- Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 66
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Firth, Raymond William, 1901-Feinberg, Richard.Watson-Gegeo, Karen Ann, 1942-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 96-27743