Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State by Geoffrey M. White
Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State

Geoffrey M. White

Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State

East-West Center Series on Contemporary Issues in Asia and t

Geoffrey M. White

343 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
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This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in 13 Pacific societies. In some states, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom. E...

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