New Guinea Leadership as Ethnographic Analogy: A Critical Review

Increasingly, archaeologists are recognizing cultural anthropological work in New Guinea as an important source of ethnographic analogy for understanding the initial stages of cultural evolution. This article critically reviews the literature on leadership in contact-era New Guinea. It is intended as an introduction both to different theoretical interpretations of leadership, as these have developed from Marshal Sahlins's Big-man archetype to the present, and to the primary literature on the topic. It points to several implications for archaeological theory, identifies a number of problems in the ethnography and theory of contact-era New Guinea leadership, and concludes with a brief guide to deploying the ethnographic and theoretical literature.     

Lhasa Bathing Festival: Night Activities

The seventh Tibetan month sees bloo-soming flowers,warm climate and smile faces in the valley of the Lhasa River. As the Garma Duiba Star rises over the Holy Bottle Mountain in the southeast, the Lhasans tell one another: "The Bathing Festival begins."The Star appears only for seven nights a year, and correspondingly the Bathing Festival lasts for seven nights, too.As night falls with Garma Duiba Star rising to join other twinkling stars, Lhasans, the young in par-ticular, go out for a…     

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ENGELS, DAGMAR, and SHULA MARKS, eds. Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India. London: British Academic Press; dist., New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 349. $59.50 (US).

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SUTTER, ROBERT G. and WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, eds. Taiwan in World Affairs. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. viii, 328. $49.95 (US), cloth.     

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HUNT, MICHAEL H. and NIU JUN, eds. Chinese Communist Foreign Relations, 1920s-1960s: Personalities and Interpretive Approaches. Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1995. Pp. xvi, 194.

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