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 Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United KingdomKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
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
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
Hermann MUECKLER Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Vienna, AustriaKeywords: Historical Imagination , Mission History , Post-Colonialism , Neo-Colonialism , Colonialism , Conflict Management , Cultural Studies , History , Material Culture , Peace And Conflict
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)
Michael WALSH , Center for Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University, United States
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
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
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec
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