Chiefs Today:
Traditional
Pacific
Leadership
and the
Postcolonial
State
edited by
Geoffrey M. White
and
Lamont Lindstrom
1997
- Introduction: Chiefs Today
- Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey M. White
- The Persistence of Chiefly Authority in Western Samoa
- Cluny Macpherson
- Rank and Leadership in Tonga
- Kerry James
- The Kingly-Populist Divergence in Tongan and Western Samoan Chiefly Systems
- Robert W. Franco
- The Reemergence of Maori Chiefs: "Devolution" as a Strategy to Maintain Tribal Authority
- Toon van Meijl
- Chiefs, Politics, and the Power of Tradition in Contemporary Fiji
- Stephanie Lawson
- Ritual Status and Power Politics in Modern Rotuma
- Alan Howard and Jan Rensel
- Traditional Leaders Today in the Federated States of Micronesia
- Eve C. Pinsker
- A Micronesian Chamber of Chiefs? The 1990 Federated States of Micronesia Constitutional Convention
- Glenn Petersen
- Irooj Ro Ad: Measures of Chiefly Ideology and Practice in the Marshall Islands
- Laurence M. Carucci
- Chiefs in Vanuatu Today
- Lamont Lindstrom
- The Discourse of Chiefs: Notes on a Melanesian Society
- Geoffrey M. White
- Tuesday's Chiefs Revisited
- Roger M. Keesing
- Constructing and Contesting Chiefly Authority in Contemporary Tana Toraja, Indonesia
- Kathleen M. Adams
- Conclusions: Chiefs and States Today
- Peter Larmour