TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Michael W.
TI  - The severed snake: matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in southeast Solomon Islands 
T2  - Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs
SN  - 1594601534
AV  - DU850 .S36 2007
U1  - 305.8995 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Durham, N.C.
PB  - Carolina Academic Press
KW  - Arosi (Solomon Islands people)
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Religion
KW  - Matrilineal kinship
KW  - Solomon Islands
KW  - Makira and Ulawa
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Makira and Ulawa (Solomon Islands)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Religious life and customs
N1  - 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
ER  -