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Author McDougall, Debra L., author.

Title Engaging with strangers : love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands / Debra McDougall
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2016

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Series ASAO studies in pacific anthropology ; 6
ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; 6.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Notes on language, orthography, and names -- Maps -- Introduction: on being a stranger in a hospitable land -- Ethnicity, insularity, and hospitality -- Ranongga's shifting ground -- Incorporating others in violent times -- Bringing the gospel ashore -- No love? : dilemmas of possession -- Estranging king contests over tribal ownership -- Losing passports : mobility, urbanization, ethnicity -- Amity and enmity in an unreliable state -- References
Summary 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, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post-conflict state building. She describes startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged from one another and from their homes. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace
Analysis christian conversion
civil conflict in solomon islands
culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities
distinctive cosmopolitan openness
engagements with strangers across life
historical and anthropological narrative
kinspeople estranged from one another
logging and conservation
post conflict state building
pre colonial warfare
solomon islands
stereotypes of rural insularity
strangers attach to local places
study of solomon islands
thoughtful
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Love -- Solomon Islands
Violence -- Solomon Islands
Strangers -- Solomon Islands
Intimacy (Psychology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Love
Strangers
Violence
Solomon Islands
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785330216
1785330217