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AUTOR(ES) W.L. Rodman
ANO 1977
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO American Ethnologist
ISSN 0094-0496
E-ISSN 1548-1425
EDITORA Wiley-Blackwell
DOI 10.1525/ae.1977.4.3.02a00080
CITAÇÕES 4
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 ab3765a1dfccd695f22b6a001171f6b7

Resumo

Studies of political middlemen suggest that appointed middlemen tend to be less effective than middlemen who achieve an interstitial position by acting as entrepreneurs. This paper discusses the introduction of native middlemen charged with responsibility for dispute processing in a northern New Hebridean society. The case of assessors in Longana indicates that government appointees may succeed in performing their assigned duties when established local leaders perceive a middleman role as a means of gaining access to scarce political resources.

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