Chiefs today : traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state / edited by Geoffrey M. Whi...
Chiefs today : traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state / edited by Geoffrey M. Whi...
Chiefs today : traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state / edited by Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N306.20995/1
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English
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xiv, 343 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Contents
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...
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 Larm...
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
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California
Date Published
1997.
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Chiefs today : traditional Pacific leadership and the postcolonial state / edited by Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom.
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East-West Center series on contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index.
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N306.20995/1
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0804728518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804728492 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804728496 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804728515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306.20995
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991001369979702626
