Engaging with Strangers
eBook - ePub

Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names
  9. Maps
  10. Introduction: On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land
  11. 1 Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality
  12. 2 Ranongga’s Shifting Ground
  13. 3 Incorporating Others in Violent Times
  14. 4 Bringing the Gospel Ashore
  15. 5 No Love? Dilemmas of Possession
  16. 6 Estranging Kin The Tribalization of Land Ownership
  17. 7 Losing Passports Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity
  18. 8 Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State
  19. Glossary
  20. References
  21. Index

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