Breaking the shell : voyaging from nuclear refugees to people of the sea in the Marshall Islands /

On the atoll of Rongelap in the northern seas of the Marshall Islands, apprentice navigators once learned to find their way across the ocean by remotely sensing how islands transform the patterning of swell and currents. Renowned for their instructional stick charts that model and map the interplay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Genz, Joseph H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]
Temas:
Navigation > Marshall Islands.
Canoes and canoeing > Marshall Islands.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
Canoes and canoeing
Navigation
Marshall Islands > History.
Marshall (Archipel) > Histoire.
Marshall Islands
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Born from the sea, coming across the sea
  • Sailing in the "sunrise" and "sunset" islands
  • Exodus from the penultimate stronghold of Marshallese navigation
  • Navigating the cultural revival of voyaging
  • Maps, models and simulations
  • "Breaking the shell"
  • Rise of the apprentice.

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