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Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands Laurence Marshall Carucci
Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands
Laurence Marshall Carucci
Exploring the Kurijmoj festival of the Enewetak people who were exiled from their island in 1947 so that the US government could carry out nuclear weapons tests, this text investigates the empowering aspects of ritual devices such as feasts, speeches, dances, and songs of apocalypse.
210 pages, Illustrations, maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 1, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780875802176 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 234 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 907 g |