TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Landscape, Violence and Social Bodies: Ritualized Architecture in a Solomon Islands Society
JO  - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
A1  - Thomas, Tim
A1  - Walter, Peter Sheppard
A1  - Walter, Richard
SP  - 545
EP  - 572
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1359-0987
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.00077
ID  - ref1
ER  -