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Competitive leadership in Trobriand political organization
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland • 90 • Published In 1960 • Pages: 118-145
By: Powell, Harry A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article demonstrates how Trobriand political organization is based on the processes by which an individual rises to power, obtains a following, and then loses power, in which case control gradually reverts to the original component groups, until a new leader evolves. These dynamic processes give rise to a continually changing pattern of areas of co-operation within the autonomous village populations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Community heads
- Territorial hierarchy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] H. A. Powell
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders