Navigating the revival of voyaging in the Marshall Islands: Predicaments of preservation and possibilities of collaboration

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-35

  Genz, Joseph ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cultural revival; Ethnographic collaboration; Indigenous knowledge; Marshall Islands; Navigation; Voyaging

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL TRADITION; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; NAVIGATION;

MARSHALL ISLANDS;

EID: 80051615829     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: 15279464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2011.0017     Document Type: Article

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