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Encountering Chiefs in (a Search for) the State
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The fate of traditional politics amid the adoption of Western governance systems and global economic integration has attracted a lot of attention in the last few decades as mentioned in this paper, since Pacific islands began achieving independence in the 1960s.Abstract:
Since Pacific islands began achieving independence in the 1960s, the fate of traditional politics amid the adoption of Western governance systems and global economic integration has attracted anthr...read more
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Leadership in Absentia: Negotiating Distance in Centralized Solomon Islands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine a tension at the heart of national leadership in Solomon Islands today: a conviction that national leaders need to spend more time in rural environments to better represent rural interests, needs and values, while having to be in town to access the individuals and organizations that, essentially, make them national leaders in the first place.
Book Review: Review of Foreign Flowers: institutional transfer and good governance in the Pacific islands
Peter Larmour,Brian Head +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it, and analyzes about forty cases of institutional transfer, beginning with Tonga's borrowing of foreign institutions in the nineteenth century and ending with current attempts to induce island states to regulate their offshore financial centers.
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Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia
TL;DR: With an eye to their own life goals, the native peoples of Pacific Islands unwittingly present to anthropologists a generous scientific gift: an extended series of experiments in cultural adaptation and evolutionary development as discussed by the authors.
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States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state
TL;DR: The state as a space: Territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador as discussed by the authors The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A technique of nation-state formation Lars Buur Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: The work of the TRC Aletta Norval University of Essex Rethinking citizenship: Reforming the law in post-war Guatemala Rachel Sieder Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh III State and community Before
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The anthropology of the state : a reader
Aradhana Sharma,Akhil Gupta +1 more
TL;DR: Theories of the state in an Age of Globalization are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the role of government in the creation of the State and its role in its management.
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The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind
TL;DR: Sociocultural anthropology often arises from the banality of daily life as mentioned in this paper, and we will start this chapter with three banal stories from the anthropologists' perspective of everyday life.