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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 do not currently live there. The question is how (and why) those expatriates continue to think of themselves as chon Namoluk, and behave accordingly.
List of contents
1 Openings -- 2 Namoluk Atoll, 1969 -- 3 Journeyings -- 4 Namoluk people, 2002 -- 5 Heading off to college -- 6 Heading off to college -- 7 Reef Crossings -- 8 Four Locations Beyond the Reef -- 9 Closings: Points of Departur
About the author
Mac Marshall is professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa, with a secondary appointment as professor of community and behavioural health. He is former editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly and currently serves as Secretary of the American Anthropological Association.
Summary
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 do not currently live there. The question is how (and why) those expatriates continue to think of themselves as chon Namoluk, and behave accordingly.
