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Namoluk Beyond The Reef: The Transformation Of A Micronesian by Mac Marshall PDF

By Mac Marshall

This case research examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll within the jap Caroline Islands of Micronesia, within the Western Pacific. so much contributors of the Namoluk group (chon Namoluk) don't at the moment stay there - a few 60% of them have moved to Chuuk, Guam, or the mainland US (such as Honolulu, Hawai'i or Eureka, California). The query is how (and why) these expatriates proceed to consider themselves as chon Namoluk, and behave for this reason, regardless of being a far-flung community of individuals, with inevitable erosions of shared language and culture.

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