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ASAO Monograph #9: Middlemen and Brokers In Oceania

Edited by William I. Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts

University of Michigan Press (1982)

University Press of America (1983)

1. Introduction
William I. Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts

2. The Government is the District Officer: An Historical Analysis of District Officers as Middlemen in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1891-1941
James A. Boutilier

3. Gaps, Bridges and Level of Law: Middlemen as Mediators in a Vanuatu Society
William I. Rodman

4. Legitimacy of Elected Officials as Middlemen in a Colonial System
Daniel Hughes and Debra Connelly

5. A Question of Legitimacy: Middlemen, Power and Change in Northwest New Britain
Dorothy Ayers Counts

6. Bureaucracy and Brokerage: Fijian Villages and Public Goods
Henry J. Rutz

7. Will Success Spoil a Middleman? The Case of Etapang, Central Vanuatu
Jean-Marc Philibert

8. Equatorial Acquiesence: Village Council and Pulenu'u in Western Samoa
Paul Shankman

9. Mai of the Manga: Man of the Middle
Susan M. Pflanz-Cook and Edwin A. Cook

​10. Bridges, Metaphors and Theories: A Commentary
Marc J. Swartz