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

By Debra McDougall

Book Overview

An ethnographical analysis of "stranger sociality" - how the Solomon Islanders have embraced and incorporated outsiders over the course of 200 years. Describes engagements with strangers across many realms of life-pre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, post-conflict state building.

• 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"