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Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Band 6)

Buch 7 von 12: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

McDougall, Debra

 
9781785330209: Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Band 6)

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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, 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.

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Debra McDougall is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She co-edited Christian Politics in Oceania with Matt Tomlinson (Berghahn, 2013) and has published chapters and articles on religion, politics, and sociality.

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ISBN 10:  1789207614 ISBN 13:  9781789207613
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2020
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