Namoluk Beyond The Reef

Mar 11, 2004
Paperback
US $31.00
CAN $39.95
UK £19.99
ISBN: 9780813341620
ISBN-10: 0813341620
Published by Westview Press

Description

This case study examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia, in the Western Pacific. Most members of the Namoluk community (chon Namoluk) do not currently live there - some 60% of them have moved to Chuuk, Guam, or the mainland US (such as Honolulu, Hawai'i or Eureka, California). The question is how (and why) those expatriates continue to think of themselves as chon Namoluk, and behave accordingly, despite being a far-flung network of people, with inevitable erosions of shared language and culture.

Reviews

“The historical depth of Marshall’s fieldwork puts him in an ideal position to analyze these changes...One distinctive strength of this book is that throughout, the author never lets us forget that there are real human beings behind these broader discussions of globalization and Namoluk as a ‘multisited, transnational community’ (p. 107).”
— Journal of Pacific History

"A moving, tender and sometimes humorous account of the challenges of living a multi-cultural life...it is a tale that makes clear the power of the human spirit, and the strength of the chon Namoluk's traditional interest in looking for "paradise" beyond the reef. Highly recommended."
— Pacific Magazine

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