Nuclear Nativity - by Laurence Marshall Carucci (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- The leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival.
- Author(s): Laurence Marshall Carucci
- 234 Pages
- Social Science, Sociology
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About the Book
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.
Book Synopsis
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.
Review Quotes
"Outstanding.... A major contribution."--Journal of Ritual Studies
"Thorough and insightful. [Carucci] has presented a reading that brings closer the experience and worldview of the Marshall Islanders."--Center for Pacific Islands Studies
"Fascinating."--Choice