Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

by Debra McDougall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789207614
• ISBN13: 9781789207613
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"