Guam
The World Factbook: Background: :: Spain ceded Guam to the US in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installation on the island is one of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific. :: ...read more [Source: The World Factbook ] Wikipedia: Guam (i/ˈɡwɑːm/ or /ˈɡwɒm/; Chamorro: Guåhån) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government.[4][5] Guam is listed as one of seventeen Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations.[6] The island's capital is Hagåtña (formerly named Agana). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.
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Expertise (alphabetical order)
Petra Maria AUTIO Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and cultural anthropology at University of Helsinki, FinlandKeywords: Social Organization , Dance , Custom , Kinship , Narratives , Social Differentiation , Language Ideology , Migration , Resilience , Colonial Discourse
Paul D'ARCY Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Agency , Anthropology , Conflict Resolution , Coral Reefs , Cultural Geography , Development Studies , Fisheries , Food History , History
Greg DVORAK Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, JapanKeywords: Post-Colonialism , Self-Determination , World War II , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Studies , Critical History , Commemoration , Gender , Sexuality
Patricia FIFITA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Indigenous Epistemology , Colonialism , Biomedicine , Gender , Non Communicable Diseases , Political Economy , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Climate Change
Jacqueline HAZEN PhD Student, Anthropology at New York University, United StatesKeywords: Cultural Production , Mediation , Language Ideology , Diasporas , Materiality , Cultural Heritage , Performance , Ethnographic Filmmaking , Indigenous Knowledge , Intellectual Property Rights
Rebecca HOFMANN , Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich, GermanyKeywords: Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Cosmology , Diasporas , Disaster , Environment , Land Tenure , Migration , Natural Hazards , Social-ecological System
Verena KECK Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, GermanyKeywords: Colonial Discourse , Health , Migration , Personhood , Religion , Social Change , Age and Aging , Identity
Patrick NUNN Professor, Sustainability Research Centre at University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Human Ecology , Indigenous Knowledge , Kava , Landscape , Myth , Religion And The Environment , Sustainable Development
Donald RUBINSTEIN Professor, Micronesian Area Research Center at University of Guam, Guam
Suzanna TIAPULA Research Fellow, Ho'omaluhia, Hawai'i, International and Indigenous Division at Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, United StatesKeywords: Customary Law , Diasporas , Gender Violence , Health , Human Rights , Identity , Justice , Law and Culture , Mining , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Michael WALSH , Center for Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University, United States
Official Websites Official portal for the Island of Guam... US Department of the Interior - Office of ... Bureau of Statistics and Plans... Research Centres Center for Island Sustainability (CIS) - U... Marine Laboratory - University of Guam... Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) - ...
Libraries and Archives Guam Law Library... University of Guam Library...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum... British Museum...
Health and Health Research Department of Public Health & Social Servi... School of Nursing and Health Sciences - Un... World Bank HealthStats...
Languages
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec
Administrative Areas Agana Heights (Municipality) Agat (Municipality) Asan (Municipality) Barrigada (Municipality) Chalan-Pago-Ordot (Municipality) Dededo (Municipality) Hagatna (Municipality) Inarajan (Municipality) Mangilao (Municipality) Merizo (Municipality) Mongmong-Toto-Maite (Municipality) Piti (Municipality) Santa Rita (Municipality) Sinajana (Municipality) Talofofo (Municipality) Tamuning (Municipality) Umatac (Municipality) Yigo (Municipality) Yona (Municipality)
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