@article{ref1,
title="Landscape, Violence and Social Bodies: Ritualized Architecture in a Solomon Islands Society",
journal="Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute",
year="2001",
author="Thomas, Tim and Walter, Peter Sheppard and Walter, Richard",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="545-572",
abstract="This article considers the interplay between the bodily experience of landscape and the formation of sociality. We investigate the social experiences of landscape in nineteenth-century Roviana Lagoon in the Solomon Islands, dealing specifically with the ritualized architecture of a fortification on Nusa Roviana Island. Drawing on oral tradition and archaeological and historical data, we argue that the architectural remains reflect a powerful mode of shaping social experience and notions of personhood in the manipulation of ideology. The Roviana landscape creates a world in which genealogical lines are sedimented to place, and practices of ritual violence and head-hunting are made to appear necessary and natural. Paying attention to both oral and material history allows a greater understanding of the ways in which such social structures are reproduced, and adds to the construction of a rich historical anthropology.<p />",
language="",
issn="1359-0987",
doi="10.1111/1467-9655.00077",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.00077"
}