Public Lecture
Zobule, Alpheaus G. 2018. Public Lecture: Studying The Vernacular In The Vernacular By The Vernacular Speakers: The Case of The Kulu Language Institute In The Solomon Islands. 27 November, ARC Centre of Excellence in Language Dynamics, Australian National University, Canberra.
Blogs and podcast
McDougall, Debra. 2019. Reviving the spirit of vernacular languages in Solomon Islands, ARC Centre of Excellence in the Dynamics of Language website. 20 Sept 2019. Read the blog post here.
Thieberger, Nick. 2019. Honiara language workshop, August 2019. Endangered Languages and Cultures blog. 29 August. Read the blog post here.
In the field with Indigenous languages, Secret Life of Language podcast, 20 Feb 2020. Read more here.
Articles and chapters
McDougall Debra & Alpheaus G. Zobule, 2021 (forthcoming). All Read Well: Schooling on Solid Ground in a Solomon Islands Language Movement, The Contemporary Pacific 33 (2).
McDougall, Debra. 2020 (in press). Gendered ambition and disappointment: Women and men in a vernacular language education movement in Melanesia, in Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific, edited by Nick Bainton, Kalissa Alexyeff, and John Cox.
McDougall, Debra. 2012. Stealing foreign words, recovering local treasures: Bible translation and vernacular literacy on Ranongga (Solomon Islands), The Australian Journal of Anthropology 23 (3): 318-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12003
Unpublished reports
McDougall, D. 2019. The Kulu Language Institute: A language movement of Ranongga. 22 January.
Published resources in Kubokota and Luqa
Na Vinaego Korega [The New Testament]. 2002. Suva: Bible Society in the South Pacific.
Roga, Kenneth, ed. 1989. Na Tututi Moa Pa Ganogga/Historical Tales of Ranongga Island. Gizo, Solomon Islands: Western Province Government.
Stubbs, Laurence. 1989. Manoga Maka Vavakato Pa Ganoqa/ Eleven Stories from Ranongga. Gizo, Solomon Islands: Western Province Government.
Stubbs, Laurence. 1991. Kaki Vavakato Pa Ganoqa/ More Stories from Ranongga. Gizo, Solomon Islands: Western Province Government.
Other publications about Ranongga
Chambers, Mary Ruth. 2009. Which way is up? Motion verbs and paths of motion in Kubokota, an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. PhD Thesis, London: University of London.
Kettle, Eleanor. 2000. A Description of the Verb Phrase in Ganoqa, an Austronesian Language of the Solomon Islands. Honours Thesis, Canberra: Australian National University.
McDougall, Debra. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands.
McDougall, Debra. 2000. “Paths of Pinauzu: Captivity and Social Reproduction in Ranongga.” The Journal of the Polynesian Society 109 (1): 99–113.
McDougall, Debra. 2003. “Fellowship and Citizenship as Models of National Community: United Church Women’s Fellowship in Ranongga, Solomon Islands.” Oceania 74 (1–2): 61–80.
McDougall, Debra. 2004. “The Shifting Ground of Moral Community: Christianity, Property, and Place in Ranongga (Solomon Islands).” PhD Thesis, Chicago: University of Chicago.
McDougall, Debra. 2005. “The Unintended Consequences of Clarification: Development, Disputing, and the Dynamics of Community in Ranongga, Solomon Islands.” Ethnohistory 52 (1): 81–109.
McDougall, Debra. 2011. “Church, Company, Committee, Chief: Emergent Collectivities in Rural Solomon Islands.” In Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific, edited by Mary Patterson and Martha Macintyre, 1st ed., 121–46. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
McDougall, Debra. 2013. “Evangelical Public Culture: Making Stranger-Citizens in Solomon Islands.” In Christian Politics in Oceania, edited by Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall, 122–45. New York: Berghahn Books.
McDougall, Debra. 2014. “Tired for Nothing? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands.” In Divine Domesticities: Paradoxes of Christianity in the Asia Pacific, edited by Margaret Jolly and Hyaeweol Choi, 199–224. Canberra: ANU EPress. http://press.anu.edu.au?p=298891.
McDougall, Debra. 2015a. “Mobile Religion on Ancestral Ground: Rituals of Chrisian Conversion in the Western Solomon Islands.” JOURNAL FOR THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION 28 (3): 309–29. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.v28i3.28943.
McDougall, Debra. 2015b. “Customary Authority and State Withdrawal in Solomon Islands: Resilience or Tenacity?” The Journal of Pacific History 50 (4): 450–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2015.1110102.
McDougall, Debra. 2014. “Tired for Nothing? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands.” In Divine Domesticities: Paradoxes of Christianity in the Asia Pacific, edited by Margaret Jolly and Hyaeweol Choi, 199–224. Canberra: ANU EPress. http://press.anu.edu.au?p=298891.
McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. New York: Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McDougallEngaging
McDougall, Debra, Inia Barry, and Silas Pio. 2008. “Disaster and Recovery on Ranongga: Six Months after the Earthquake in the Western Solomons.”
Richards, Rhys and Kenneth Roga. 2005. Not Quite Extinct: Melanesian barkcloth (‘tapa’) from Western Solomon Islands. Paremata Press.