Abstract

Introduction - leadership and change in the Western Pacific sanctity and power - Polynesian chieftainship revisited authority and egalitarianism - discourses of leadership on Nukulaelae Atoll a new king for Nanumanga - changing demands for leadership and authority in a Polynesian Atoll society the absurd side of power in Samoa the Bellonese - high, low and equal - leadership and change on a Polynesian outlier in the Solomon Islands money, sovereignty and moral authority on Rotuma who are the chiefs? chiefship in Lau, Eastern Fiji leadership and Solomon Islanders' resistance to plantation-based political economy - roles and circumstances priest and prince - integrating Kastom, Christianity and modernization in Kawra'ae leadership identity crisis - changing images of chieftainship in Manam society from possession to apotheosis - transformation and disguise in the leadership of a cargo movement epilogue - old canvass, new leadership.

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