Decreed affinities: Nationhood and the western Solomon Islands

Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-220

  Dureau, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 34548279124     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223349808572870     Document Type: Article

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34. A situation which was utterly reversed by the experience of 'pacification'. Durcau, 'Mixed blessings', 67-85
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38. Because of their numerical superiority, the frequent offences against Malaitan pollution norms and cultural valuation of violence and vengeance. Bennett, Wealth of the Solomons, 173
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