Leaders, Followers, and Supporters: The Okanagan Experience
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This article discusses some of the conceptual problems and issues of leadership as this idea is commonly used by social anthropologists in their work among native peoples in Canada. The main argument of the article is illustrated by research among the Okanagan Indians of British Columbia. Although the formulation presented here has no grand theoretical pretensions, an attempt is made to deal with the problem of leadership in both time and space (i.e., diasynchronically). Particular attention is paid to external forces which impinge on the position of local leaders, and on the ideology and actions of followers and supporters of local leaders.
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