Engaging with Strangers

Engaging with Strangers
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 1789207614
ISBN-13 : 9781789207613
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Book Synopsis Engaging with Strangers by : Debra McDougall

Download or read book Engaging with Strangers written by Debra McDougall and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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