The severed snake : matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in southeast Solomon Islands / Michael W. Scott.
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TextSeries: 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
- unmediated
- volume
- 1594601534
- 9781594601538
- Arosi (Solomon Islands people) -- Kinship
- Arosi (Solomon Islands people) -- Land tenure
- Arosi (Solomon Islands people) -- Religion
- Matrilineal kinship -- Solomon Islands -- Makira and Ulawa
- Land tenure -- Solomon Islands -- Makira and Ulawa
- Christianity and culture -- Solomon Islands -- Makira and Ulawa
- Makira and Ulawa (Solomon Islands) -- Social life and customs
- Makira and Ulawa (Solomon Islands) -- Religious life and customs
- 305.8995 22
- 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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