Chiefs Today - East-West Center
This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in thirteen Pacific societies. In some states, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom. Elsewhere, chiefs operate as a mechanism of local accommodation to centralized state authority, facilitating state operations in the local community. In still other states, local chiefs have risen up against central authority, leading their communities in opposition to the state and its deprecations. In each case, the chief is a focus for cultural struggle in the border zones of local, national,…
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Weitere Autoren: Lindstrom, Lamont (Hrsg.) / White, Geoffrey M. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-2851-5
- EAN: 9780804728515
- Produktnummer: 9124687
- Verlag: Stanford Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 343 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 467 g
- Auflage: New.
- Gewicht: 467
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