Description |
xviii, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents |
From great men to big men : peace, substitution and competition in the Highlands of New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- Great man, big man, chief : a triangulation of the Massim / John Liep -- Soaring hawks and grounded persons : the politics of rank and gender in north Vanuatu / Margaret Jolly -- Punishing the yams : leadership and gender ambivalence on Sabarl Island / Debbora Battaglia -- Great men and total systems : North Mekeo hereditary authority and social reproduction / Mark Mosko --The cryptic brotherhood of big men and great men in Ilahita / Donald Tuzin -- Complementarity and rivalry : two contradictory principles in Yafar society / Bernard Juillerat -- How Oro Province societies fit Godelier's model / Eric Schwimmer -- The fractal person / Roy Wagner |
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The flute myth and the law of equivalence : origins of a principle of exchange / Gillian Gillison -- One man and many men / Marilyn Strathern -- 'Interests' in exchange : increment, equivalence and the limits of big-manship / Rena Lederman -- Post-Ipomoen modernism : the Duna example / Nicholas Modjeska -- Big men, great men and women : alternative logics of gender differences / Dan Jorgensen -- An unfinished attempt at reconstructing the social processes which may have prompted the transformation of great-men societies into big-men societies / Maurice Godelier |
Analysis |
Melanesia |
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Social structure |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 305-320 |
Subject |
Big man (Melanesia)
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Political anthropology -- Melanesia.
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Political leadership -- Melanesia.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) -- Melanesia.
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Author |
Godelier, Maurice.
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Strathern, Marilyn.
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LC no. |
90001312 |
ISBN |
0521390184 |
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2735103501 |
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