Chiefs Today - East-West Center

by Geoffrey M. White and Dr Geoffrey M White

This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in 13 Pacific societies. In some states, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom. Elsewhere, chiefs operate as a mechanism of local accommodation to centralized state authority, facilitating state operations in the local community. This text is concerned with the renewed significance of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728518
• ISBN13: 9780804728515
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: East-West Center
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"