Engaging with strangers : love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands / / Debra McDougall

• Autore: McDougall Debra L.
• Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.099593
• Soggetto topico: Love - Solomon Islands; Violence - Solomon Islands; Strangers - Solomon Islands; Intimacy (Psychology)
• Soggetto non controllato: christian conversion; civil conflict in solomon islands; culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities; distinctive cosmopolitan openness; engagements with strangers across life; historical and anthropological narrative; kinspeople estranged from one another; logging and conservation; post conflict state building; pre colonial warfare; solomon islands; stereotypes of rural insularity; strangers attach to local places; study of solomon islands; thoughtful
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ENGAGING WITH STRANGERS; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names; Introduction - On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land; 1. Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality; 2. Ranongga's Shifting Ground; 3. Incorporating Others in Violent Times; 4. Bringing the Gospel Ashore; 5. No Love? Dilemmas of Possession; 6. Estranging Kin; 7. Losing Passports: Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity; 8. Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State; Glossary; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Engaging with strangers
• ISBN: 1-78533-021-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811667403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; ; Volume 6.