An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
Edited by:
R. Feinberg,
K. A. Watson-Gegeo
Imprint: Berg Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 66
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 952g
ISBN: 9781845200367
ISBN 10: 1845200365
Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 01 January 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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.
K.A. Watson-Gregeo (Edited by) , R. Feinberg (Edited by)
