| Description |
x, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Maps -- Photographs -- 1. Local Eddies in Global Streams -- 2. The Past in the Present -- 3. A Reconstructed Past -- 4. The Labor Trade -- 5. Sukuru -- 6. Gafamanu -- 7. Gwee'abe and After -- 8. La'aka and the Ruin of Tulagi -- 9. The World of Colonial Caste and Plantations -- 10. Ta'a I Marika -- 11. Maasina Rule -- 12. Repression -- 13. Kastomu , Law, and Tax -- 14. Kisini and Kastomu -- 15. A Growing Christian Presence -- 16. Lull Before the Storms -- 17. The Kwaio Cultural Center -- 18. Kwaio Fadanga and Confrontation -- 19. Confrontations and Dangers -- 20. Beyond the Mountains -- 21. Resistance in the Nineties -- 22. Discourses of Resistance, Structures of Culture -- 23. Continuity and Change in Kwaio Resistance -- 24. Oppositional Structures in Kwaio Resistance -- 25. Why Resistance? -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Analysis |
Ethnic groups Social life |
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Solomon Islands |
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Ethnic groups Social life |
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Solomon Islands |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-249) and index |
| Subject |
Acculturation -- Solomon Islands.
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Kwaio (Melanesian people)
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Kwaio (Melanesian people) -- Ethnic identity.
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| LC no. |
92012610 |
| ISBN |
0226429199 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226429202 (paper : alk. paper) |
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