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Direct linkTivinarlik, Alfred; Wanat, Carolyn L. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2006
This yearlong ethnographic study of principals' leadership in Papua New Guinea high schools describes influences of imposing a bureaucratic school organization on principals' decision making in a communal society. Communal values of kinship relationships, "wantok" system, and "big men" leadership challenged principals'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Western Civilization, Developing Nations, Cultural Differences
Mead, Margaret – 1976
Since World War II the peoples of the Pacific Islands have changed rapidly from primitive isolated groups to social units that are in touch with the rest of the world. Because these changes have occurred within a short span of time, the island people, particularly the Manus, have provided the following anthropological data: a civilization can…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Change Strategies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies
