Micronesian Legends

Micronesian Legends PDF Author: Bo Flood
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Legends from the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are interwoven with historical interludes and beautiful woodcut illustrations.

Micronesian Legends

Micronesian Legends PDF Author: Bo Flood
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Legends from the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are interwoven with historical interludes and beautiful woodcut illustrations.

Pacific Island Legends

Pacific Island Legends PDF Author: Bo Flood
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people. --amazon.com.

Marianas Island Legends

Marianas Island Legends PDF Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061018
Category : Chamorro (Micronesian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Offering rare insight to Chamorro and Carolinian cultures, this book contains legends, poems, folklore, history, traditions, rhymes and riddles, and scary stories collected from the elders and the youth of the Marianas Islands.

Pacific Neighbors

Pacific Neighbors PDF Author: Betty Dunford
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
Complete reference for the islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. RL4

A History of Guam

A History of Guam PDF Author: Lawrence J. Cunningham
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Covers the lives and legends of the first people of Guam and traces the island's development into present day. Illustrations, glossary, index. RL4

Summoning the Powers Beyond

Summoning the Powers Beyond PDF Author: Jay Dobbin
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082486011X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Summoning the Powers Beyond collects and reconstructs the old religions of preindustrial Micronesia. It draws mostly from written sources from the turn of the nineteenth century and the period immediately after World War II: reports of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition of 1908–1910, articles by German Roman Catholic missionaries in Micronesia included in the journal Anthropos, and reports by the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA) and the American Board of Commissioners of the Foreign Missions (ABCFM). A detailed introduction and an overview of Micronesian religion are followed by separate chapters detailing religion in the Chuukic-speaking islands, Pohnpei, Kosrae, the Marshall Islands, Yap, Palau, Kiribati, and Nauru. The Chamorro-speaking group of the Marianas is omitted because lengthy periods of intense military and missionary activity eradicated most of the local religion. The Polynesian outliers Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi are discussed at the end primarily to underscore the contrasts between Polynesian and Micronesian religion. In a concluding chapter, the author highlights the similarities and differences between the areas within Micronesia and then attempts an appreciation or evaluation of Micronesia religion. Finally, he addresses the evidence of a tentative hypothesis that Micronesian religion is sufficiently different from that of Polynesia and Melanesia to justify the continued claim of a separate Micronesian religion.

Chamoru Legends

Chamoru Legends PDF Author: Teresita Lourdes Perez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878453334
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez, unique illustrations of each legend by Guam artists, and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera. The book includes CHamoru classics like the story of the siblings who created the universe; the two lovers who were pushed to the edge of a cliff because their union was forbidden; and the tale of the son who leapt an island away to escape his jealous father. CHamoru Legends is the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal recipient for Best Regional Fiction for Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim. It is a reversible book featuring the legends in English on one side and in CHamoru on the other. Through multiple layers of interpretation, the book weaves together strips of wisdom and cultural lessons like the leaves used to shape the CHamoru guåfak, or mat, upon which the earliest CHamoru storytellers sat sharing their versions of these timeless tales.

Legends of Micronesia

Legends of Micronesia PDF Author: Eve Grey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Pacific Island Legends

Pacific Island Legends PDF Author: Bo Flood
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060844
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A collection of forty-three traditional and historical stories from the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia.

Oceanic Mythology

Oceanic Mythology PDF Author: Roland B. Dixon
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465577386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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