Engaging with strangers : love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2016.
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| Series: | ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ;
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Table of 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.