ABSTRACT Hierarchy is often discussed in anthropology in terms of models that are specific to, and to an extent determinant of particular cultures. For example, the contrast between Big Man and Chief drawn by Sahlins not only appears as an emanation of distinction between two cultural orders in his account, but also as being a fundamental determinant of that cultural distinction. Likewise, the Dumontian conception of hierarchy that has been applied to a number of recent analyses of Oceanic societies is also one that emanates from and is foundational to the establishment of a distinction between Western and Indian societies. In this paper, I explore an alternative conception of emerging hierarchies in the South Pacific, that do not fit so easily into such schema. Based on fieldwork in East New Britain, I argue whilst such issues are sometimes locally glossed in terms of an ideal-type opposition between Western and local cultures, that often an understanding of these different hierarchies is not so easily contained within such a perspective.

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新不列颠东部的等级制度和分层

摘要 人类学中经常根据特定于特定文化并在一定程度上决定特定文化的模型来讨论等级制度。例如，萨林斯所描绘的大人物和酋长之间的对比在他的描述中不仅表现为两种文化秩序之间的区别，而且是这种文化区别的基本决定因素。同样，已应用于最近对大洋洲社会的许多分析的杜蒙式等级观念也是一种源自西方和印度社会之间区分的基础，并且是区分西方社会和印度社会的基础。在本文中，我探讨了南太平洋新兴等级制度的另一种概念，它不太容易融入这种模式。根据在新不列颠东部的实地考察，