{"product_id":"engaging-with-strangers-debra-mcdougall-9781789207613","title":"Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Debra McDougall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789207614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789207613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Debra McDougall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077397180671,"sku":"9781789207613","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50a0eb91-53cc-40a5-8649-a57b68686f45.jpg?v=1685469749","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/engaging-with-strangers-debra-mcdougall-9781789207613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}