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Status rivalry in a Polynesian steady-state society
Ethos • 6 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 242-269
By: Marcus, George E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a discussion of status competition in contemporary Tonga. After a general discussion of the psychocultural dimension and history of status rivalry in Tonga and other hierarchical Polynesian societies, Marcus focuses on two observed situations of competition between status co-equivalent men. One incident occurred between candidates running for town office. The other situation involved verbal exchanges between two men, in the presence of a woman, at a kava-drinking party. For each incident, Marcus analyzes the process of escalation, eventual withdrawal by the losing contestant, and the aftermath.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Social control
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1972-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- George E. Marcus
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-269)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73643517
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans