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…mehr
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names Maps Introduction: On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land Chapter 1. Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality Chapter 2. Ranongga's Shifting Ground Chapter 3. Incorporating others in violent times Chapter 4. Bringing the Gospel Ashore Chapter 5. No love? Dilemmas of Possession Chapter 6. Estranging Kin: Contests over Tribal Ownership Chapter 7. Losing passports: Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity Conclusion: Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names Maps Introduction: On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land Chapter 1. Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality Chapter 2. Ranongga's Shifting Ground Chapter 3. Incorporating others in violent times Chapter 4. Bringing the Gospel Ashore Chapter 5. No love? Dilemmas of Possession Chapter 6. Estranging Kin: Contests over Tribal Ownership Chapter 7. Losing passports: Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity Conclusion: Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State Bibliography Index
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