• DOI:10.1017/S0010417500001729
Corpus ID: 145254059

Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia

@article{Sahlins1963PoorMR,
  title={Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia},
  author={M. Sahlins},
  journal={Comparative Studies in Society and History},
  year={1963},
  volume={5},
  pages={285-303}
}

M. Sahlins

Published 1963

Geography

Comparative Studies in Society and History

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. They have compressed their institutions within the confines of infertile coral atolls, expanded them on volcanic islands, created with the means history gave them cultures adapted to the deserts of Australia, the mountains and warm coasts of New Guinea, the rain forests… CONTINUE READING

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