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The severed snake : matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in southeast Solomon Islands / Michael W. Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographsPublisher: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xxxiii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594601534
  • 9781594601538
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8995 22
LOC classification:
  • DU850 .S36 2007
Contents:
Introduction : Comparative ontology -- The appearance of an Arosi village -- Moving toward heterotopia -- "Where is the Kastom landowner?" : Maasina rule in Arosi -- Cutting the cord : reproduction as cosmogony -- Re-presenting autochthonous histories -- Being and becoming auhenua -- Present primordialities -- The severed snake : scales of origin -- Arosi ethno-theologies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-360) and index.

Introduction : Comparative ontology -- The appearance of an Arosi village -- Moving toward heterotopia -- "Where is the Kastom landowner?" : Maasina rule in Arosi -- Cutting the cord : reproduction as cosmogony -- Re-presenting autochthonous histories -- Being and becoming auhenua -- Present primordialities -- The severed snake : scales of origin -- Arosi ethno-theologies.

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