Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-020-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDougall, Debra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

McDougall, Debra
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.