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trators, gold miners, and missionaries in the nineteenth century, Arosi relationship to their land and ancestors was weakened but not lost.Under the influence of outsiders, Arosi moved from their original places and came into contact with people from other matrilineages.Many became Christian and incorporated Christian ideology into their ways of understanding themselves as Arosi.While the Maasina Rule movement in the Solomon Islands in the midtwentieth century urged an abandonment of Christianity and a return to tradition (kastom), many Arosi chose another path, which Scott discusses in a final chapter devoted to Arosi ethno-theologies.They denied a "radical difference between Christianity and objectified formulations of custom," and were able to integrate indigenous tradition and Christianity.The Severed Snake is a work of significance for anthropologists, historians of religion, missiologists, and students of folklore

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