TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Michael W.
TI  - The severed snake: matrilineages, making place, and a Melanesian Christianity in southeast Solomon Islands 
SN  - 9781594601538 (pbk.)
AV  - DU850 .S36 2006
U1  - 305.8995 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Durham, N.C.
PB  - Carolina Academic Press
KW  - Arosi (Solomon Islands people)
KW  - Kindship
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Religion
KW  - Matrilineal kinship
KW  - Solomon Islands
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Makira and Ulawa (Solomon Islands)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Religious life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references 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
N2  - "Examining the secretive dynamics of competing land claims among the Arosi of the island of Makira (Solomon Islands), Michael W. Scott demonstrates the explanatory power of ethnographic attention to the nexus between practice and indigenous theories of being. His focus on the ways in which Arosi understand their matrilineages to be the bearers of discrete categorical essences exclusively emplaced in ancestral territories forms the basis for a timely and accessible rethink of current anthropological representations of Melanesian sociality and opens up new lines of inquiry into the transformative relationships among gendered metaphors of descent, processes of place making, and the indigenization of Christianity; Informed by original historical research and newly documented variants of regionally important mythic traditions, The Severed Snake is a work of multidisciplinary scope that proposes critical and methodological shifts relevant to historians, development professionals, folklorists, and scholars of religion as well as anthropologists."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006005146.html
ER  -