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Big men and great men: personifications of power in Melanesia
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PART I 1. From great men to big men: peace, substitution and competition in the Highlands of New Guinea PIERRE LEMONNIER 2. Great man, big man, chief: a triangulation of the Massim JOHN LIEP 3. Soaring hawks and grounded persons: the politics of rank and gender in North Vanuatu MARGARET JOLLY PART II 4. Punishing the yams: leadership and gender ambivalence on Sabarl Island DEBBORA BATTAGLIA 5. Great men and total systems: North Mekeo hereditary authority and social reproduction MARK MOSKO 6. The cryptic brotherhood of big men and great men in Ilahita DONALD TUZIN 7. Complementarity and rivalry: two contradictory principles in Yafar society BERNARD JUILLERAT 8. How Oro province societies fit Godelier's model ERIC SCHWIMMER PART III 9. The fractal person ROY WAGNER 10. The flute myth and the law of equivalence: origins of a principle of exchange GILLIAN GILLISON 11. One man and many men MARILYN STRATHERN 12. Interests in exchange: increment, equivalence and the limits of big-manship RENA LEDERMAN 13. Post-Ipomoean modernism: the Duna example NICHOLAS MODJESKA 14. Big men, great men and women: alternative logics of gender difference DAN JORGENSEN PART IV 15. An unfinished attempt at reconstructing the social processes which may have prompted the transformation of great men societies into big men societies MAURICE GODELIER.
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- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1992-01-01
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 05
- Pages
- 29-2781-29-2781
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
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- W2088227631
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- en
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