Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands

by Laurence Marshall Carucci

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The leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Illuminating the empowering aspects of rituals involved in feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of apocalypse, and gift giving, Carucci offers a wealth of insights into a celebration the Enewetak people have made uniquely their own.

  • ISBN10 0875802176
  • ISBN13 9780875802176
  • Publish Date 1 April 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Imprint Northern Illinois University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 234
  • Language English