Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Feinberg, R.; Watson-Gegeo, K. A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323559
• Artikelnr.: 60860078

Autorenporträt

K.A. Watson-Gregeo (Edited by) , R. Feinberg (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - leadership and change in the Western Pacific; sanctity and
power - Polynesian chieftainship revisited; authority and egalitarianism -
discourses of leadership on Nukulaelae Atoll; a new king for Nanumanga -
changing demands for leadership and authority in a Polynesian Atoll
society; the absurd side of power in Samoa; the Bellonese - high, low and
equal - leadership and change on a Polynesian outlier in the Solomon
Islands; money, sovereignty and moral authority on Rotuma; who are the
chiefs? chiefship in Lau, Eastern Fiji; leadership and Solomon Islanders'
resistance to plantation-based political economy - roles and circumstances;
priest and prince - integrating Kastom, Christianity and modernization in
Kawra'ae leadership; identity crisis - changing images of chieftainship in
Manam society; from possession to apotheosis - transformation and disguise
in the leadership of a cargo movement; epilogue - old canvass, new
leadership.