Big men and chiefs

Big men and chiefs

Ryan Schram
ANTH 3603: Melanesian worlds
ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
Social Sciences Building 410 (A02)
Week of March 08, 2021 (Week 2)

Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/2700/2021/2

Main reading: Sahlins (1963)

References and further reading

Sahlins, Marshall D. 1963. “Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 5 (3): 285–303. http://www.jstor.org/stable/177650.