ASAO Monograph #9

MIDDLEMEN AND BROKERS IN OCEANIA

Edited by William I. Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts

 

University of Michigan Press 1982; University Press of America 1983

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1. Introduction
William I. Rodman and Dorothy Ayers Counts

2. The Government is the District Officer: An Historical Analysis of District Officers as Middlemen in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1891-1941
James A. Boutilier

3. Gaps, Bridges and Level of Law: Middlemen as Mediators in a Vanuatu Society
William I. Rodman

4. Legitimacy of Elected Officials as Middlemen in a Colonial System
Daniel Hughes and Debra Connelly

5. A Question of Legitimacy: Middlemen, Power and Change in Northwest New Britain
Dorothy Ayers Counts

6. Bureaucracy and Brokerage: Fijian Villages and Public Goods
Henry J. Rutz

7. Will Success Spoil a Middleman? The Case of Etapang, Central Vanuatu
Jean-Marc Philibert

8. Equatorial Acquiesence: Village Council and Pulenu'u in Western Samoa
Paul Shankman

9. Mai of the Manga: Man of the Middle
Susan M. Pflanz-Cook and Edwin A. Cook

10. Bridges, Metaphors and Theories: A Commentary
Marc J. Swartz