Engaging with strangers : love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDougall, Debra L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Colección:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; 6.
Temas:
Love > Solomon Islands.
Violence > Solomon Islands.
Strangers > Solomon Islands.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Amour > Salomon.
Violence > Salomon.
Étrangers > Salomon.
Intimité.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Love.
Strangers.
Violence.
Solomon Islands.
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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