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UC San Diego UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Incorporating the Archipelago: The Imposition and Acculturation of the Solomon Islands State Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j3731v1 Author Tucker Sade, Alexis Elizabeth Publication Date 2017 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Incorporating the Archipelago: The Imposition and Acculturation of the Solomon Islands State A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology by Alexis Elizabeth Tucker Sade Committee in charge: Professor Jonathan Friedman, Chair Professor Guillermo Algaze Professor Marcel Henaff Professor Joel Robbins Professor Rupert Stasch 2017 The Dissertation of Alexis Elizabeth Tucker Sade is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm and electronically: __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Chair University of California, San Diego 2017 iii DEDICATION For my children and my mother iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Signature Page……………………………………………………………………….. iii Dedication……………………………………………………………………………. iv Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………... v Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………... vi Vita…………………………………………………………………………………..... x Abstract of the Dissertation………………………………………………………….. xi Chapter One Introduction……………………………………………………………. 1 Chapter Two Everyday Experiences of the State…………………………………… 26 Chapter Three Pragmatism and the State…………………………………………… 91 Chapter Four Statesmen…………………………………………………………… 136 Chapter Five Power and Manifestations of the State……………………………… 202 Chapter Six Conclusions…………………………………………………………... 248 References………………………………………………………………………….. 263 v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to begin by thanking my mother, Elaine Tucker, who is by far the best teacher I have ever known. She has supported me in everything I have done and pushed me to achieve my dreams. Not only did she read draft after draft, she moved out to California after retiring from 41 years of teaching to help me start my own career. She ensured Deacon and Josephine had a warm, loving environment all those long days I was away writing. She has always set a positive example of hard work, dedication, and kindness which provided a model for both my brother and me to earn doctoral degrees. It would not have been possible without you mom. I would like to thank my children for making my life full of love. You both grounded me when the challenge of writing seemed overwhelming. You provided much needed hugs, kisses, and laughs. You kept me going when I was tired and provided perspective which drove me to succeed. I cannot wait to see the wonderful things you will do. I love you more than the world, my bear cub and jellybean. I would like to thank my brother, Colin Tucker, for leading the way to educational achievement, but also recognizing that I had my own path – one that led around the world a few times before landing where I am now. Thanks for being just a bit weirder than me so I seemed like the normal one. I would also like to thank my dad, Brian Tucker – the weirdest one of all of us. vi I would like to thank all my family and friends, which I am blessed to have many, but also too many to name. I would like to thank my grandparents, John and Dorothy Deacon and Helga and Mike McClow. I would like to thank my best friends Natalie Martin and Amanda Beauchane; we have been friends since we were just a few years old, these kinds of friendships are rare and you both mean a lot to me. I would like to thank Natasa Garic-Humphrey and Clint Humphrey for being there for me through thick and thin. Your kindness and patience is remarkable. Thank you to Melanie McComsey, I would not have finished this dissertation without your constant encouragement, you are a wonderful support. I want to thank Nofit Itzhak, Jess Novak, and Esin Duzel for being amazing friends all these years. I could not have done this without knowing you were all there with me. I would like to thank all my friends and colleagues at UCSD. I would like to thank Mel Bencik for being there for me right from the start; you are one of the nicest people I have ever met. I would like to thank Johanna Whiteley for being a genuine friend. I would like to thank Kate Higgins, for everything that has come to pass and all that the future holds. You always made me laugh when I needed it more than anything. I would like to thank my dear Solomon Islands family, Linton Sade (none of this would have been possible without you), Ben and Meresina Sade, George, Betty, Jema, Hazy, Bobby, Saga, John T., Andrew, Grace, Benny, Justin, Patricia, Alexis, Uncle Paul and Tracia, Felicia, Coco, and everyone else and Nemo. There are far too many of you to name, but I could not have done this without your support. I would like to thank all my friends, family, and colleagues in the Solomon Islands who made this research possible. I cannot possibly name everyone, but please vii accept my deepest gratitude. I would like to especially acknowledge Anouk Ride Dolaiano, Janet Tolosi, Cat Hockings, Ben Pike, Steph Price, Sara Hughes Hill, Leah Collinson and the Collinson Family, John Roughan, Terry Brown, Rodolfo Maggio, Melanie Phillips, Morris Kiukakea, Grace Hilly, Bamboo Café, Mother’s Union, SIVB, National Museum, and the National Parliament. The people of the Solomon Islands are the most welcoming people and I would especially like to acknowledge and thank my informants for allowing me into their lives. I look forward to a lifetime of experiences to come. I would like to thank Lynne Miller and MiraCosta College for giving me the opportunity to live my dream. I could not have imagined a more amazing professional family than the one you all have provided. I look forward to the future we will build for our students at MiraCosta. I would lastly like to acknowledge and thank my committee – Jonathan Friedman, Joel Robbins, Rupert Stasch, Marcel Henaff, and Guillermo Algaze. I could not have been blessed with a more amazing group of individuals, whose academic achievements are the stuff of legends, but whose kindness extends even farther. What I have appreciated the most is the flexibility you have granted me to find my own path, while at the same time always being there to write a letter of recommendation or read a paper at a moment’s notice. You trusted me to succeed and provided excellent models along the way. The genuine support you have provided me over the years has surely been the foundation of my success. viii Chapter 3, in part, is currently being prepared for submission for publication in Anthropological Forum. The dissertation author was the primary investigator and author of this material. Chapter 4, in part, is currently being prepared for submission for publication of the material. The dissertation author was the primary investigator and author of this material. ix VITA Professional 2016 – Present Professor of Anthropology, MiraCosta College 2013 – 2016 Associate Faculty, MiraCosta College 2009 – 2016 Instructor, Warren College Writing Program, UCSD 2009 – 2010 Reader, Sociology and Education Studies, UCSD 2008 – 2009 Teaching Assistant, Anthropology, UCSD Education 2011 Doctoral Candidacy, Sociocultural Anthropology University of California, San Diego 2010 Master of Arts, Sociocultural Anthropology University of California, San Diego 2004 Bachelor of Arts with Academic Distinction, Philosophy and Biological Anthropology University of Hawai’i at Manoa 2004 Archaeological Field School, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) University of Hawai’i at Manoa 2002 E.A.S.T. Program, University of Moscow, Russia University of Colorado, Denver Fellowships, Grants, and Honors UC Pacific Rim Dissertation Research Fellowship F.G. Bailey Ph.D. Field Research Grant Friends of the International Center Research Fellowship David K. Jordan Endowed Fellowship Dean of Social Sciences Research Travel Grant UCSD Dept. of Anthropology First-Year Teaching Assistantship/Scholarship B.A. with academic distinction, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Tau Sigma National Academic Honor Society for Transfer Students x ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Incorporating the Archipelago: The Imposition and Acculturation of the Solomon Islands State by Alexis Elizabeth Tucker Sade Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology University of California, San Diego, 2017 Professor Jonathan Friedman, Chair Shaped by the intertwining effects of foreign imposition and local acculturation, the transformation of the southwestern Pacific archipelago into the Solomon Islands state is an entangled and on-going narrative of incorporation. Beginning in the colonial imagination, the territorial consolidation of the islands through imperial cartography, imprinted the archipelago on European maps paving the way for the triad of colonization, missionization, and modernization. Contraposed against diverse indigenous cultures, the imposition of European socio-political and xi religious ideologies reframed local customs as deficient, initiating what has been an enduring process of reforming the people to fit the global imagination of the West. Inculcating a discourse of dysfunction, this self-disparaging