Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific (1984) 

BRENNEIS, DONALD LAWRENCE, AND FRED R. MYERS (EDS.)

Introduction: Language and Politics in the Pacific
Fred R. Myers and Donald Lawrence Brenneis
 
I. Egalitarian Polity: The Production of Contexts of Understanding1. "Wrapped Words": Poetry and Politics among the Wana of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Jane Monnig Atkinson

2. Straight Talk and Sweet Talk: Political Discourse in an Occasionally Egalitarian Community
Donald Lawrence Brenneis
 
3. Who Speaks Here? Formality and the Politics of Gender in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea
Rena Lederman
 
4. Putting Down Roots: Information in the Language of Managalase Exchange
William H. McKellin
 
II. Autonomy: Language, Objects, and the Limits of Control
 
5. Words That Are Moving: The Social Meanings of Ilongot Verbal Art
Michelle Z. Rosaldo
 
6. From Words to Objects to Magic: "Hard Words" and the Boundaries of Social Interaction
Annette B. Weiner
 
7. Of Symbolic Anchors and Sago Soup: The Rhetoric of Exchange among the Chambri of Papua New Guinea
Deborah Gewertz
 
III. Hierarchy: Speech and the "Taken-for-Granted" Polity
 
8. Lauga and Talanoaga: Two Speech Genres in a Samoan Political Event
Alessandro Duranti
 
9. Three Perspectives on Role Distance in Conversations between Tongan Nobles and Their "People"
George E. Marcus