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Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State (1997)
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White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)

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