Middlemen and brokers in Oceania
By: edited by William L. Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts.
Contributors: Rodman, William L.; Counts, Dorothy Ayers.
Series: ASAO monograph ;; no. 9
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Oceania.; Political anthropology -- Oceania.; Oceania -- Politics and government.; Oceania -- Colonial influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The government is the district officer / James A. Boutilier; title: Gaps, bridges, and levels of law / William L. Rodman; title: Legitimacy of elected officials as middlemen in a colonial system / Daniel T. Hughes and Debra Connelly; title: A question of legitimacy / Dorothy Ayers Counts; title: Bureaucracy and brokerage / Henry J. Rutz; title: Will success spoil a middleman? / Jean-Marc Philibert; title: Equatorial acquiescence / Paul Shankman; title: Mai of the Manga / Susan M. Pflanz-Cook and Edwin A. Cook; title: Bridges, metaphors, and theories / Marc J. Swartz.