At the Intersection of Chieftainship and Constitutional Government: Some Comparisons from Micronesia
Indigenous Micronesian political forms closely parallel those of eastern Melanesian and Polynesian societies. Chieftainship integrates aspects of land tenure, kin groupings, status hierarchy, and ideologies of the supernatural. Because so many aspects of social and political economy meet in these in...
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2016
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | Indigenous Micronesian political forms closely parallel those of eastern Melanesian and Polynesian societies. Chieftainship integrates aspects of land tenure, kin groupings, status hierarchy, and ideologies of the supernatural. Because so many aspects of social and political economy meet in these institutions, chiefly politics have traditionally been responsive to popular pressures; there is in fact, if not necessarily in myth, very little that is autocratic about them. The primary debate in the Federated States of Micronesia has not been about the importance of chieftainship, but whether the people are better served by including chiefs within their constitutional government or keeping them outside it, where it is believed they can more effectively exercise the checks and balances the people wish to maintain. |
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