Marshall Islands
The World Factbook: Background: :: After almost four decades under US administration as the easternmost part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands attained independence in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. Compensation claims continue as a result of US nuclear testing on some of the atolls between 1947 and 1962. The Marshall Islands hosts the US Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Reagan Missile Test Site, a key installation in the US missile defense network. :: ...read more [Source: The World Factbook ] Wikipedia: The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ),[note 1] is an island country located in the northern Pacific Ocean. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia, with the population of 68,480 people spread out over 24 low-lying coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets. The islands share maritime boundaries with the Federated States of Micronesia to the west, Wake Island to the nor...read more [Source: Wikipedia ]
Expertise (alphabetical order)
Ingrid AHLGREN Curator, Oceania at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, United StatesKeywords: Cosmology , Cultural Heritage , Engaged Anthropology , Environment , First Contacts , Globalization , Historical Imagination , History , Intellectual Property Rights , Land Management
Ruci Mafi BOTEI PhD Student, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiKeywords: Agency , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Cutural Change , Epistemology , Pacific Regional Politics , Pacific Studies , World Heritage
Laurence Marshall CARUCCI Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University, United StatesKeywords: Adoption , Age and Aging , Anthropological Fieldwork , Body , Christianity , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Literature , Colonialism
Ali CLARK Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge, United KingdomKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
Greg DVORAK Associate 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
Sue FARRAN Professor, Law at Northumbria University, United KingdomKeywords: Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Neo-Colonialism , Post-Colonialism , Sustainability , Development , Children , Legal Pluralism
Lea Lani KINIKINI KAUVAKA Independent researcher, Pacific Community at EU PacTVET project, TongaKeywords: Resilience , Indigenous Knowledge , Forced Migration , Subaltern Bodies , Māui Genealogies , Body Theory , Coconut Oil , Race , Settlerhood
Anaïs MAURER PhD Student, Department of French and Romance Philology & Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, United StatesKeywords: Colonial Politic , Postcolonial Literatures , Nuclear Issues , Nationalism , Colonial Imagination , Contemporary Literatures , Decolonisation , Ecology , Ethnicity , Feminism
Donald RUBINSTEIN Professor, Micronesian Area Research Center at University of Guam, Guam
Roy SMITH Senior Lecturer, Dept of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University, United KingdomKeywords: Citizenship , Climate Change , Conflict , Diasporas , Disaster , Environment , Food and Nutrition , Globalization , Migration , Nuclear Issues
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)
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
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Pryor, Geoff, 1944- 1992 [David Coulter cutting the hair of Graham Richardson in... [
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Pryor, Geoff, 1944- 1992 Ministerial responsibility - the Labor way [picture] / ... [
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Moir, Alan (Alan Charles), 1945- 1989 "We want an inquiry ... we don't want an i... [
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United States. Air Force [Washington?] : Air Force Pacific Fleet, 1943 Important... [
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Books Besnier, Niko,Alexeyeff, Kalissa,. 2014.. Gender on the edge : transgender, gay, and other Pacific i... [
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Johnson, Giff, author. 2013. Don't ever whisper : Darlene Keju, Pacific health pioneer, champion for... [
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942, author.. 2012. Kilmeny of the orchard / Lucy Maud Montgome... [
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Archives Woman of the Saltikoff Islands.. nd. 1824.1 print : stipple engraving, hand col.. ... [
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Choris, Louis, 1795-1828.. nd. [Radak?].1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 15 x 20 cm.. ... [
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Choris, Louis, 1795-1828.. nd. [Radak].1 drawing : graphite ; 13 x 24 cm.. ... [
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Video/Visual Burstall, Tim.Robinson, Lee.Marshall, Roger.Neill, Sam.Umbrella Entertainment (Firm). 2004. Attack F ... [
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Audio There are Recordings at Paradisec Charles B West; Ronald K Inouye. nd. Chuck West is interviewed by Ronald Inouye on February 4, 1985 ... [
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Official Websites Office of the President - Republic of the ... US Department of the Interior - Office of ... UNESCO - Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site...
Libraries and Archives ALELE National Archives-Library-Museum of ... College of the Marshall Islands... Marshall Islands Campus Library of the Uni...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum...
Health and Health Research Institut of Health Metrics and Evaluation... Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS... Ministry of Health - Office of the Preside...
Languages
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