Title: Private politics :
Authors: Bakel, M. van.; Hagesteijn, Renée.; Velde, Piet van de.; Bakel, M. van,; Hagesteijn, Renée,; Velde, Piet van de,
Date: 1986
Publisher: E.J. Brill,
Physical description: viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Make your son a king: political power through matronage and motherhood / Joke Schrijvers -- On settling down and becoming a 'Big-Man' / Sander E. van der Leeuw -- The 'Big-Man': a Melanesian model in Africa / Albert A. Trouwborst -- Changing resources, changing entrepreneurs / Peter Kloos -- The 'Big-Man' and Ihumatar: personal power and leadership in Melanesia and the Canadian Arctic / Jarich G. Oosten -- A cart burial from a small middle Iron Age cemetery in Nijmegen / Tom Bloemers -- Early Samoan leadership between ascibed and achieved / Martin A. van Bakel -- 'Trading places': political leadership in early Southeast Asian states / Renée Hagesteijn -- 'Big-Man', tyrant, chief: the anomalous starting point of the state in Classical Greece / Edward Ch. L. van der Vliet -- Social inequality in the European early Neolithic: Bandkeramik leadership / Pieter van de Velde -- An explanatory model for structural change of a political system / Alex T. Strating and G. Christiaan Uhlenbeck -- 'Big-Man' and his big brother: some notes on incorporation / Martin R. Doornbos -- The end of the 'Big-Man': the image of Geoffrey Plantagenet / Henry Teunis -- The 'Big-Man' and his small power-domain: the rise and fall of a village cacique in 20th century Spain / Raymond Buve -- Police-informers: 'Big-Men' failing their followers / Heleen Louwe -- Rising from the pits: some Sri Lankan 'Big-Men' of Gemming / Victoria J. Baker -- Up street, down street, front street, back street: the context of St. Maarten politics / Franklin Tjon Sie Fat -- Rhetoric as a resource: Malta's Dom Mintoff / Jeremy Boissevain -- 'Big-Man': from private politics to political science / Martin van Bakel, Renée Hagesteijn, Pieter van de Velde.
Subject headings (LCSH): Elite (Social sciences); Leadership.; Political anthropology--Melanesia.; Political anthropology.; Political leadership--Croos-cultural studies.; Political leadership--Cross-cultural studies.; Power (Social sciences); Prestige.