IDENTITY AT STAKE IN THE PRESENT-DAY KINGDOM OF TONGA

Every human society must resolve at least two fundamental questions: first, how to live together and second, how to survive together, that is, in particular, how to produce together. We are among those who think these are separate questions, and will concern ourselves here with only the first. To in...

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Hauptverfasser: Marie-Claire Bataille, Georges Benguigui
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Every human society must resolve at least two fundamental questions: first, how to live together and second, how to survive together, that is, in particular, how to produce together. We are among those who think these are separate questions, and will concern ourselves here with only the first. To inquire into how to go about living together ultimately comes down to inquiring into the ways of managing the conflicts inherent in any society. Obviously a strongly hierarchical traditional society does not manage internal conflicts in the same way as a liberal Western society. We will attempt to address one aspect