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Debra McDougall - Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology) - 9781785330209 - V9781785330209
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Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology)

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Description for Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology) Hardcover. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 610.

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Series
ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785330209
SKU
V9781785330209
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Ref
99-15

About Debra McDougall
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.

Reviews for Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology)
"This is more than just a fine contribution to the growing literature on the predicament of place making and relationships in the Solomon Islands. Since McDougall does not take intimate knowledge of the region for granted and also writes in a delightfully unpretentious style, keeping jargon to a minimum, the book invites a readership far beyond Pacific specialists." • American ... Read more

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