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Accounting for changearticle 1999 • Nero, Karen L.
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This article shows that international development agencies currently intervening in the restructuring of the Marshal Islands economy have continued to define the term 'sustainability' in ways that undermine the resilience of local economic strategies...Time of famine, time of transformationessay 1989 • Nero, Karen L.
Belau • Oceania > Micronesia
This article examines some of the important changes that occurred in Balauan culture and society in the context of foreign occupation and war-caused famines. It shows that the Balauans regained their sense of national worth when the Japanese, who tre...The hidden painarticle 1990 • Nero, Karen L.
Belau • Oceania > Micronesia
This article discusses the dynamics of gender relation among Belaun families. It argues that wife beating has been much more common in the 1980s than in the past. This increase is traced to expansion of alcohol drinking and use of corporal punishment...The breadfruit tree storyarticle 1992 • Nero, Karen L.
Belau • Oceania > Micronesia
This paper discusses the role of traditional Belauan stories and mythologies in contemporary politics of the islands. Based on analyses of election billboards with symbols relating to the Belauan breadfruit tree story which were in the past set aside...Production and circulation of food in Yapessay 9999 • Egan, James A. et al.
Yapese • Oceania > Micronesia
This is a study of Yap diet and nutrition under the MIRAB economy. Since the initiation of the Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1986, Yap has received large annual subsidies from the U.S. government in exchange for use of a milit...