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Title: BIG MEN AND GREAT MEN
PERSONIFICATIONS OF POWER IN MELANESIA
By: Maurice Godelier (Editor), Marilyn Strathern (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521102294
ISBN 13: 9780521102292
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 17 October, 2008
Pages: 348
Description: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory.
Synopsis: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue. This is a hypothesis formulated by Maurice Godelier concerning the relationship between power, kinship and wealth. Although tightly focused on Godelier's work, the book opens up a major enquiry into the constitution of society in a part of the world where men of prominence come to personify the nature of power. 'Big men', entrepreneurs of exchanges, and 'great men', who flourish in societies characterised by restricted exchanges and ritual complexity, appear to belong to quite different systems. This book considers how substantial the difference between them really is.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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