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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Language, Orthography, and Names
Maps

Introduction: On Being a Stranger in a Hospitable Land

Chapter 1. Ethnicity, Insularity, and Hospitality
Chapter 2. Ranongga’s Shifting Ground
Chapter 3. Incorporating others in violent times
Chapter 4. Bringing the Gospel Ashore
Chapter 5. No love? Dilemmas of Possession
Chapter 6. Estranging Kin: Contests over Tribal Ownership
Chapter 7. Losing passports: Mobility, Urbanization, Ethnicity

Conclusion: Amity and Enmity in an Unreliable State

Bibliography
Index

Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

Debra McDougall

308 pages, 24 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-020-9 Hb Published (January 2016)

eISBN 978-1-78533-021-6 eBook