| Description |
1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Fetanin Weno, Sefanin Weno; Chapter 2. Reaching Out to Guam; Chapter 3. Configurations of Urban Space and Social Space; Chapter 4. Emic Understandings of Movement; Chapter 5. Conceptions of Social Groups: Homesite (Falang) and Household (Pei); Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement on the atoll of Satowan in Chuuk State asintimately associated with clan, lineage, and locality, as well as the influence of a system of local beliefs and attitudes based on combinations of age, marital status, and childbirth. Lola Quan Bautista also investigates the ways in which the current movement of citizens from Chuuk State and others from FSM to Guam fits within larger contexts that |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects -- Micronesia (Federated States)
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Internal migrants.
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Internal migrants
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Migration, Internal -- Social aspects
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Micronesia (Federated States)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739134795 |
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0739134795 |
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1282713108 |
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9781282713109 |
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