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Category : Micronesia
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Glimpses of Micronesia
Author: Glimpses of Micronesia and the Western Pacific
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Category : Micronesia (Federated States)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Glimpses of Micronesia & the Western Pacific
Author: Guam & Micronesia Glimpses
Author: American Anthropology in Micronesia
Author: Robert C. KistePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself. Contributors analyze the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examine the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of socio-cultural anthropology. Although concentrating largely on disciplinary concerns, the authors consider the connections between work done in the era of applied anthropology and that completed later when anthropology was pursued mainly for its own sake. The focus then returns to applied concerns in more recent years and issues pertaining to the relevance of anthropology for the world of practical affairs. It will be of essential interest to students and scholars of Pacific Islands studies and the history of anthropology.
Micronesian Legends
Author: Bo FloodPublisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Retells sixty-eight traditional legends of the islands, including creation myths and tales of duhendes, dancing trickster elves of the jungle.
Place Names of Pohnpei Island
Author: Tom PanholzerPublisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A wealth of information on the place names of Pohnpei. Useful to readers interested in ancient Pohnpei lore as well as contemporary sites.
Nuclear Playground
Author: Stewart FirthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000199614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In the late 1980s it was felt that World War III could start in the Pacific. Long regarded by the USA as an American lake, the Pacific was now a focus of competition between the superpowers. The USSR, whose nuclear-arms navy was limited to their north Pacific ports, now had a major new naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. In response to this new threat, the Americans were planning more urgently for nuclear war in the Pacific, adding to their own mighty arsenal in the region and taunting the Soviets with aggressive surveillance and military exercises. The Soviets did the same. For 40 years, Pacific Islanders have had cause to resent the use of their ocean as a nuclear playground: of the five nuclear powers, three – the USA, USSR and China – launched missiles into the Pacific for text purposes; two – the USA and Britain – exploded nuclear devices there but had stopped; and one, France, continued to test nuclear bombs in one of its colonies. Pacific Islanders now have cause to fear that the ocean is becoming a nuclear battleground. Originally published in 1987, this book tells the story of the nuclear men in the Pacific and of those people they ‘displaced’ and irradiated. It is also about what these people and their governments had begun to do in response. The nuclear issue had transformed the political landscape of Micronesia and the South Pacific in the 1980s, loosening the US grip and making the French increasingly unpopular. The people of these remote communities, largely forgotten or considered dispensable, had a nuclear past made for them. Now they want to make their own future.
Author: Samuel Chenery DAMON
Author: Don E. Wilson