Synopses & Reviews
This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in fourteen Pacific societies.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index.
Table of Contents
Contributors; 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; 5. The reemergence of Maori Chiefs: 'devolution' as a strategy to maintain tribal authority Toon van Meijl; 6. Chiefs, politics, and the power of tradition in contemporary Fiji Stephanie Lawson; 7. Ritual status and power politics in modern rotuma Alan Howard and Jan Rensel; 8. Traditional leaders today in the federated states of micronesia Eve C. Pinsker; 9. A micronesian chamber of Chiefs? The 1990 federated states of micornesia constitutional convention Glenn Petersen; 10. Irooj Ro Ad: measures of Chiefly ideology and practice in the Marshall Isalnds Laurence M. Carucci; 11. Chiefs in Vanuatu today Lamont Lindstrom; 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 Larmour; Notes; Bibliography; Index.