D Mcdougall
Biographic Data
| ID | 8533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Mcdougall |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdougall |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOUGALL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5447-9991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Not settlement but movement
Christian Politics in Oceania
The phrase “Christian politics” evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Van…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific
In October 2018, as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepared to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Port Moresby, journalists reported on stark disparities that were drawing the ire of the nation. News headlines announced that the national government had just splurged on 40 Maseratis for APEC leaders Photos showed cargo planes unloading carefully sheathed luxury cars, each one valued at more than 100 times PNG's per capita gross d…
Beyond rupture
In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious traditions, compelling them to renew their faith, repent and seek redemption. This special issue takes up questions about Christianity’s temporal ‘secondarity’. Contributors move beyond increasingly futile theoretical debates about rupture and continuity by considering how Christians in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands conceptualise and enact their frau…
Rejecting and Remembering ancestors
Conversion narratives all around Oceania focus on heroic ancestors who transformed their own societies. These local heroes are often both the missionary and a local chief who welcomed him ashore. Yet, these narratives require anti-heroes as well as heroes, the warriors or priests who resisted the gospel message. This paper focuses on a 2016 celebration of 100 years of Christianity in the Kubokota region of Ranongga Island in the Western Solomon I…
Gender and Christianity
Anthropological studies of lived Christianity move beyond questions of whether Christianity oppresses or liberates women. Anthropologists, instead, seek to understand how Christianity shapes the way women and men understand oppression and freedom and the way they envision their gendered roles. This entry outlines anthropological insights into the way in which Christian missions have transformed gender roles and domestic relationships; the complex…
Lost passports? Disconnection and immobility in the rural and urban Solomon Islands
Anthropologists have documented the dense “trans-island” ties between rural and urban life in contemporary Melanesia. In exploring dilemmas of mobility and belonging in Solomon Islands, this article focuses on anxieties about the ways that these geographically expansive networks are shrinking – anxieties expressed through jokes and laments about “losing passports”. Drawing on interviews and published memoirs, it tracks the stories of two Malaitan…
Mobile Religion on Ancestral Ground
Conversion to Christianity from an ancestral religion is often depicted as a move from a closed world of local spirits to a radically open world of a transcendent God. This article focuses on the Paci?c Islands, one of the most thoroughly Christian parts of the world, where people themselves often describe conversion as a move from a local to a global world. Drawing on ethnohistorical research conducted over a period of decades on the island of R…
Faith in Motion
Mobility and interconnection have characterized material and ideational relationships over the last two centuries. For example Rather than being seen as a static set of relations, structures and institutions, society is best understood through the metaphor of flows, movement and networks. Technology and transport play a key role in this, facilitating connections between people and ideas. Yet the contemporary world is also marked by efforts to rei…
Engaging with Strangers
Malaita
Ben Burt has compiled more than 600 images, mostly photographs, related to the land and people of Malaita over a period of more than 150 years. Most of the photos come from missionaries, colonial d
Customary Authority and State Withdrawal in Solomon Islands
After a period of civil crisis (1998–2003), the Solomon Islands state was often characterised as weak and failing, but the society as strong and resilient. Such characterisations resonate with discussions of ‘resilience’ now prominent in international development discourse. Focusing on institutions of chiefly authority in Ranongga (in Solomon Islands’ Western Province), this paper suggests that while such non-state forms of governance did help to…
Greed and Grievance
“Tired for nothing”? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands
Stealing foreign words, recovering local treasures
In O ceania, which is arguably both the world's most linguistically diverse region and its most C hristian, B ible translation projects are sites where ordinary people pay attention to the kind of ‘interlingual articulations’ that are the focus of this special issue. This article focuses on an ongoing vernacular revival movement that arose from the translation of the New Testament into L uqa, an A ustronesian language of R anongga I sland in the …
Natives and Exotics
Rethinking Christianity and Anthropology
The limits of meaning: Case studies in the anthropology of Christianity , edited by Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson. Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2006, 239pp., endnotes, references, list
Becoming Sinless
Islam is beginning to have a significant presence in the predominantly Christian nation of Solomon Islands. A few well-educated Islanders were drawn to Islam's elegant monotheism and promise of unity in the 1980s and early 1990s, but numbers have grown significantly in the years following a violent civil conflict (1998-2003). Many of these new Muslim converts, especially those from the island of Malaita, seem preoccupied with the problem of sin a…
Christianity, Relationality and the Material Limits of Individualism
In his 2004 monograph, Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society, Joel Robbins argues that the Urapmin, a small group of newly converted Chistrians in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, are trapped between two conflicting systems of values, namely the relationality of indigenous culture and the individuality of Christian culture. Yet, Robbins suggests that the Urapmin are troubled not only by conflicting values, …
The Unintended Consequences of Clarification
Outside agencies working in the Solomon Islands-whether a postwar land commission or a late-twentieth-century global environmental organization-have consistently called for the clarification of property rights as the necessary starting point for any form of economic development. Many residents of Ranongga, a small mountainous island in the Western Solomons, are eager to have their territorial rights recognized by national and international organi…
Fellowship and Citizenship as Models of National Community
From humble beginnings in the 1960s, the United Church Women's Fellowship (UCWF) is now viewed as one of the most effective organizations on the island of Ranongga (Western Province, Solomon Islands). This essay considers reasons for the success of women's fellowship in Ranongga, focusing on the distinctive position of women in gendered local and translocal forms of social organization. Far from being isolated from the outside world, Ranonggan wo…
Special social behaviour?Social disability in our everyday life. A question to the disabled and nondisabled
The Unintended Consequences of Clarification
Outside agencies working in the Solomon Islands-whether a postwar land commission or a late-twentieth-century global environmental organization-have consistently called for the clarification of property rights as the necessary starting point for any form of economic development. Many residents of Ranongga, a small mountainous island in the Western Solomons, are eager to have their territorial rights recognized by national and international organi…
Becoming Sinless
Islam is beginning to have a significant presence in the predominantly Christian nation of Solomon Islands. A few well-educated Islanders were drawn to Islam's elegant monotheism and promise of unity in the 1980s and early 1990s, but numbers have grown significantly in the years following a violent civil conflict (1998-2003). Many of these new Muslim converts, especially those from the island of Malaita, seem preoccupied with the problem of sin a…
Christianity, Relationality and the Material Limits of Individualism
In his 2004 monograph, Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society, Joel Robbins argues that the Urapmin, a small group of newly converted Chistrians in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, are trapped between two conflicting systems of values, namely the relationality of indigenous culture and the individuality of Christian culture. Yet, Robbins suggests that the Urapmin are troubled not only by conflicting values, …
Lost passports? Disconnection and immobility in the rural and urban Solomon Islands
Anthropologists have documented the dense “trans-island” ties between rural and urban life in contemporary Melanesia. In exploring dilemmas of mobility and belonging in Solomon Islands, this article focuses on anxieties about the ways that these geographically expansive networks are shrinking – anxieties expressed through jokes and laments about “losing passports”. Drawing on interviews and published memoirs, it tracks the stories of two Malaitan…
Rejecting and Remembering ancestors
Conversion narratives all around Oceania focus on heroic ancestors who transformed their own societies. These local heroes are often both the missionary and a local chief who welcomed him ashore. Yet, these narratives require anti-heroes as well as heroes, the warriors or priests who resisted the gospel message. This paper focuses on a 2016 celebration of 100 years of Christianity in the Kubokota region of Ranongga Island in the Western Solomon I…
Stealing foreign words, recovering local treasures
In O ceania, which is arguably both the world's most linguistically diverse region and its most C hristian, B ible translation projects are sites where ordinary people pay attention to the kind of ‘interlingual articulations’ that are the focus of this special issue. This article focuses on an ongoing vernacular revival movement that arose from the translation of the New Testament into L uqa, an A ustronesian language of R anongga I sland in the …
Customary Authority and State Withdrawal in Solomon Islands
After a period of civil crisis (1998–2003), the Solomon Islands state was often characterised as weak and failing, but the society as strong and resilient. Such characterisations resonate with discussions of ‘resilience’ now prominent in international development discourse. Focusing on institutions of chiefly authority in Ranongga (in Solomon Islands’ Western Province), this paper suggests that while such non-state forms of governance did help to…
Special social behaviour?Social disability in our everyday life. A question to the disabled and nondisabled
Fellowship and Citizenship as Models of National Community
From humble beginnings in the 1960s, the United Church Women's Fellowship (UCWF) is now viewed as one of the most effective organizations on the island of Ranongga (Western Province, Solomon Islands). This essay considers reasons for the success of women's fellowship in Ranongga, focusing on the distinctive position of women in gendered local and translocal forms of social organization. Far from being isolated from the outside world, Ranonggan wo…
The Unintended Consequences of Clarification
Outside agencies working in the Solomon Islands-whether a postwar land commission or a late-twentieth-century global environmental organization-have consistently called for the clarification of property rights as the necessary starting point for any form of economic development. Many residents of Ranongga, a small mountainous island in the Western Solomons, are eager to have their territorial rights recognized by national and international organi…
Rethinking Christianity and Anthropology
The limits of meaning: Case studies in the anthropology of Christianity , edited by Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson. Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2006, 239pp., endnotes, references, list
Becoming Sinless
Islam is beginning to have a significant presence in the predominantly Christian nation of Solomon Islands. A few well-educated Islanders were drawn to Islam's elegant monotheism and promise of unity in the 1980s and early 1990s, but numbers have grown significantly in the years following a violent civil conflict (1998-2003). Many of these new Muslim converts, especially those from the island of Malaita, seem preoccupied with the problem of sin a…
Christianity, Relationality and the Material Limits of Individualism
In his 2004 monograph, Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society, Joel Robbins argues that the Urapmin, a small group of newly converted Chistrians in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, are trapped between two conflicting systems of values, namely the relationality of indigenous culture and the individuality of Christian culture. Yet, Robbins suggests that the Urapmin are troubled not only by conflicting values, …
Natives and Exotics
Stealing foreign words, recovering local treasures
In O ceania, which is arguably both the world's most linguistically diverse region and its most C hristian, B ible translation projects are sites where ordinary people pay attention to the kind of ‘interlingual articulations’ that are the focus of this special issue. This article focuses on an ongoing vernacular revival movement that arose from the translation of the New Testament into L uqa, an A ustronesian language of R anongga I sland in the …
“Tired for nothing”? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands
Customary Authority and State Withdrawal in Solomon Islands
After a period of civil crisis (1998–2003), the Solomon Islands state was often characterised as weak and failing, but the society as strong and resilient. Such characterisations resonate with discussions of ‘resilience’ now prominent in international development discourse. Focusing on institutions of chiefly authority in Ranongga (in Solomon Islands’ Western Province), this paper suggests that while such non-state forms of governance did help to…
Greed and Grievance
Mobile Religion on Ancestral Ground
Conversion to Christianity from an ancestral religion is often depicted as a move from a closed world of local spirits to a radically open world of a transcendent God. This article focuses on the Paci?c Islands, one of the most thoroughly Christian parts of the world, where people themselves often describe conversion as a move from a local to a global world. Drawing on ethnohistorical research conducted over a period of decades on the island of R…
Faith in Motion
Mobility and interconnection have characterized material and ideational relationships over the last two centuries. For example Rather than being seen as a static set of relations, structures and institutions, society is best understood through the metaphor of flows, movement and networks. Technology and transport play a key role in this, facilitating connections between people and ideas. Yet the contemporary world is also marked by efforts to rei…
Engaging with Strangers
Malaita
Ben Burt has compiled more than 600 images, mostly photographs, related to the land and people of Malaita over a period of more than 150 years. Most of the photos come from missionaries, colonial d
Lost passports? Disconnection and immobility in the rural and urban Solomon Islands
Anthropologists have documented the dense “trans-island” ties between rural and urban life in contemporary Melanesia. In exploring dilemmas of mobility and belonging in Solomon Islands, this article focuses on anxieties about the ways that these geographically expansive networks are shrinking – anxieties expressed through jokes and laments about “losing passports”. Drawing on interviews and published memoirs, it tracks the stories of two Malaitan…
Gender and Christianity
Anthropological studies of lived Christianity move beyond questions of whether Christianity oppresses or liberates women. Anthropologists, instead, seek to understand how Christianity shapes the way women and men understand oppression and freedom and the way they envision their gendered roles. This entry outlines anthropological insights into the way in which Christian missions have transformed gender roles and domestic relationships; the complex…
Rejecting and Remembering ancestors
Conversion narratives all around Oceania focus on heroic ancestors who transformed their own societies. These local heroes are often both the missionary and a local chief who welcomed him ashore. Yet, these narratives require anti-heroes as well as heroes, the warriors or priests who resisted the gospel message. This paper focuses on a 2016 celebration of 100 years of Christianity in the Kubokota region of Ranongga Island in the Western Solomon I…
Beyond rupture
In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious traditions, compelling them to renew their faith, repent and seek redemption. This special issue takes up questions about Christianity’s temporal ‘secondarity’. Contributors move beyond increasingly futile theoretical debates about rupture and continuity by considering how Christians in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands conceptualise and enact their frau…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific
In October 2018, as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepared to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Port Moresby, journalists reported on stark disparities that were drawing the ire of the nation. News headlines announced that the national government had just splurged on 40 Maseratis for APEC leaders Photos showed cargo planes unloading carefully sheathed luxury cars, each one valued at more than 100 times PNG's per capita gross d…
Christian Politics in Oceania
The phrase “Christian politics” evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Van…
Not settlement but movement
Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · History (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Christianity (8 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works)