.... Many residents of Ranongga, a small mountainous island in the Western Solomons, are eager to have their territorial rights recognized by national and international organizations and by other islanders. Yet transforming complex, crosscutting, localized relationships into abstract rights that are...

... individual and group property rights in Ranongga in the Solomon Islands: ‘‘Under the global rules of economic liberalism, such clarification of boundaries is necessary to minimize risk, distribute profit fairly, and ensure the success of business enterprise. In Outside Gods, Foreign Powers...

...:10.1080/00664670701637743 . McDougall Debra 2005 “The Unintended Consequences of Clarification: Development, Disputing, and the Dynamics of Community in Ranongga, Solomon Islands.” Ethnohistory 52 , no. 1 : 81 – 109 . doi:10.1215/00141801-52-1-81 . Munn Nancy D. 1992 The...