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Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands

Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands

Genz, Joseph H.

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Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyIndigenous Studies

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ISBN10: 0824867904
ISBN13: 9780824867904
Publisher: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
Published: Jan 31 2019
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

On the atoll of Rongelap in the northern seas of the Marshall Islands, apprentice navigators once learned to find their way across the ocean by remotely sensing how islands transform the patterning of swell and currents. Renowned for their instructional stick charts that model and map the interplay of islands and waves, these students of wave piloting techniques embarked on trial voyages to ruprup jo̧kur, a Marshallese expression roughly translated as breaking the shell of the turtle, which would confer their status as navigators. These traditional practices, already in decline with imposing colonial occupations, came to an abrupt halt with the Cold War-era nuclear weapons testing program conducted by the United States. The residents and their descendants are still trying to recover from the myriad environmental, biological, social, and psychological impacts of the nuclear tests.

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