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9780521102292

Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521102292

  • ISBN10:

    0521102294

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-12-11
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue. This is a hypothesis formulated by Maurice Godelier concerning the relationship between power, kinship and wealth. Although tightly focused on Godelier's work, the book opens up a major enquiry into the constitution of society in a part of the world where men of prominence come to personify the nature of power. 'Big men', entrepreneurs of exchanges, and 'great men', who flourish in societies characterised by restricted exchanges and ritual complexity, appear to belong to quite different systems. This book considers how substantial the difference between them really is.

Table of Contents

From great men to big men: peace, substitution and competition in the Highlands of New Guinea
Great man, big man, chief: a triangulation of the Massim
Soaring hawks and grounded persons: the politics of rank and gender in north Vanuatu
Punishing the yams: leadership and gender ambivalence on Sabarl Island
Great men and total systems: North Mekeo hereditary authority and social reproduction
The cryptic brotherhood of big men and great men in Ilahita
Complementarily and rivalry: two contradictory principles in Yafar society
How Oro Province societies fit Godelier's model
The fractal person
The flute myth and the law of equivalence: origins of a principle of exchange
One man and many men
'Interests' in exchange: increment, equivalence and the limits of big-manship
Post-Ipomoean modernism: the Duna example
Big men, great men and women: alternative logics of gender difference
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