Engaging with Strangers : : Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands / / Debra McDougall.
The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Chris...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names
- Maps
- Introduction: On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land
- 1 Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality
- 2 Ranongga’s Shifting Ground
- 3 Incorporating Others in Violent Times
- 4 Bringing the Gospel Ashore
- 5 No Love? Dilemmas of Possession
- 6 Estranging Kin The Tribalization of Land Ownership
- 7 Losing Passports: Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity
- 8 Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State
- Glossary
- References
- Index