Rank and Status in Polynesia and Melanesia

Douglas L. Oliver

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Rank and Status in Polynesia and Melanesia

Essays in honor of professor Douglas Oliver

Douglas L. Oliver

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One of the less fortunate legacies that we who practice ethnography in Oceania have given the scholarly world is the stereotype of the Melanesian leader as "Big Man".

The designation "Big Man", derived literally from the metaphor commonly used in Austronesian languages or from the Neo-Melanesian Pidgin lexicon, has come to denote a "pure type" or "species" of leadership, authority and government. (Rightly or wrongly, ethnographic sources usually ignore women's role in government, althoug...

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Éditeur : Société des Océanistes

Lieu d’édition : Paris

Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 3 avril 2014

ISBN numérique : 978-2-85430-106-9

DOI : 10.4000/books.sdo.938

Collection : Publications de la SdO

Année d’édition : 1978

ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-85430-059-8

Nombre de pages : 93

Jean Guiart

Introduction

Select Bibliography of works of Douglas Oliver

Harold M. Ross

Leadership Styles and Strategies in a Traditional Melanesian Society

John Terrell

Archaeology and the Origins of Social Stratification in Southern Bougainville

Alexander Mamak et Richard Bedford

Race, Class and Ethnicity : Industrial Relations in the South Pacific with Special Reference to Fiji and Bougainville

Antony Hooper

Tahitian Folk Medicine

Paul Kay

Tahitian Words for Race and Class

One of the less fortunate legacies that we who practice ethnography in Oceania have given the scholarly world is the stereotype of the Melanesian leader as "Big Man".

The designation "Big Man", derived literally from the metaphor commonly used in Austronesian languages or from the Neo-Melanesian Pidgin lexicon, has come to denote a "pure type" or "species" of leadership, authority and government. (Rightly or wrongly, ethnographic sources usually ignore women's role in government, although they may have significant impact).

In countless introductory anthropology courses students are asked to accept and perpetuate the cliches that Melanesian leaders typify achieved rather than ascribed status, that Melanesian leaders are archetypal symbols of primitive capitalistic competition, and that Melanesian leadership represents an inferior form.

Douglas L. Oliver

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