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Houses and ancestorsBook 1992 • Gustafsson, Berit
Manus • Oceania > Melanesia
In this study of Melanesian leadership, Gustafsson critiques the two widely-held views that i) the traditional leader, or so-called 'Big Man,' was a pure entrepreneur manipulating the system for his own gain and ii) that the traditional leadership sy...