Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania

The papers on district officers in the Solomons, mediators and middlemen in Vanuatu, elected officials in Ponape, local government officers and big-men in Papua New Guinea, village-government interaction in Fiji, and the role of village mayors in Western Samoa are all readable interpretations not straitjacketed by a simplistic paradigm. -- Annette Weiner, American Anthropologist * Journal Of The Polynesian Society *
...it should help to revitalize the study of Pacific middlemen.... -- Annette Weiner, American Anthropologist * Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology *
The editors...are to be congratulated for moving into an area of investigation that must account for the complexity in the links between national and local encounters. -- Annette Weiner, American Anthropologist