Leadership and change in the Western Pacific
Subtitle: essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday
By: edited by Richard Feinberg & Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo
Edition: 1st.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781000323559; 9781003135425; 9781000325324; 9781000321845
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Political anthropology; Chiefdoms; Leadership; Social change; Politics and government
Description: An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction : leadership and change in the Western Pacific  -- Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and Richard Feinberg; title: Sanctity and power on Anuta : Polynesian chieftainship revisited  -- Richard Feinberg; title: Authority and egalitarianism : discourses of leadership on Nukulaelae Atoll  -- Niko Besnier; title: A new king for Nanumaga : changing demands for leadership and authority in a Polynesian Atoll society  -- Barbara Lüem; title: The absurd side of power in Samoa  -- Bradd Shore; title: The Bellonese : high, low -- and equal : leadership and change on a Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands  -- Torben Monberg; title: Money, sovereignty and moral authority on Rotuma  -- Alan Howard; title: Who are the chiefs? : chiefship in Lau, Eastern Fiji  -- Steven Hooper; title: Leadership and Solomon Islanders' resistance to plantation-based political economy : roles and circumstances  -- Stephen Boggs and David W. Gegeo; title: Priest and prince : integrating Kastom, Christianity and modernization in Kwara'ae leadership  -- David W. Gegeo and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo; title: 'Identity crisis' : changing images of chieftainship in Manam society  -- Nancy Christine Lutkehaus; title: From possession to apotheosis : transformation and disguise in the leadership of a cargo movement  -- Harvey Whitehouse; title: Epilogue : old canvas, new leadership -- William A. Shack.