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Engaging with Strangers

Hardcover • 2016

Engaging with Strangers

By Debra McDougall

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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 fro...Show more

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9781785330209

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2016

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Engaging with Strangers

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