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No detailed description available for "A Solomon Island Society".
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Business & Economics
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No detailed description available for "A Solomon Island Society".
Author : Geoffrey M. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521533324
For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.
Author : Douglas Llewellyn OLIVER
Publisher :
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Anna Annie Kwai
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1760461660
The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an ‘outsider’ perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as ‘loyal’ helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiders’ perspectives. Islander encounters with white American troops enabled self-awareness of racial relationships and inequality under the colonial administration, which sparked struggles towards recognition and political autonomy that emerged in parts of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in the postwar period. Exploitation of postwar military infrastructure by the colonial administration laid the foundation for later sociopolitical upheaval experienced by the country. In the aftermath of the 1998 crisis, the supposed unity and pride that prevailed among islanders during the war has been seen as an avenue whereby different ethnic identities can be unified. This national unification process entailed the construction of the ‘Pride of our Nation’ monument that aims to restore the pride and identity of Solomon Islanders.
Author : Geoffrey Miles White
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Ethnicity
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Author : Debra McDougall
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789207613
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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Page : pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2011*
Category : Solomon Islands
ISBN : 9781618403025
Author : Ben Burt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134354576
Burt studies the effects of the 19th century labour trade, colonial subjugation and the subsequent Christian conversion. He examines the anti-colonial Maasina Rule movement of the 1940s and finally illustrates the subsequent efforts of Kwara'ae leaders to regain their self-determination and to reaffirm the values of "tradition" under Christianity. The Kwara'ae example of colonialism and Christianity is part of the broader experience of Melanesia and of other peoples in the Third World who once lived a tribal life. The detailed local focus, based on a year of fieldwork, provides valuable evidence essential to a wider comparative analysis of colonial history and the continuing development of indigenous Christianity from an anthropological and a historical perspective. Tradition and Christianity explores how and why a Pacific Islands people, fiercely attached to the tradition of their ancestors, have transformed their society by changing their religion.
Author : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231053419
Keesing studies how the Kwaio have held on to their traditional ways despite 125 years of European colonialism and a militantly Christian national culture.
Author : Shahar Hameiri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108416896
This book advances an innovative approach to explain international interventions' uneven outcomes in given contexts, and harnesses this approach to examine three prominent case studies: Aceh, Cambodia and Solomon Islands. It is the first book comprehensively to discuss the rapidly growing literature on how interventions interface with target states and societies.