Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology

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.

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

An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.