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In Nuclear Nativity, Carucci explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of apocalypse, and gestures of extraordinary generosity are among the means by which Enewetak and Ujelang people celebrate the festival. Carucci thoroughly investigates the empowering aspects of these ritual devices. He gives special attention to the array of valu ables and intricate scenarios of exchange - including food and money, speeches and songs - and illuminates the ways that people create histories of Kurijmoj tracing the festival to its ancient or Christian sources depending on their positions or status in the community. Carucci's book will engage Pacific anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars interested in the anthropology of religion and ritual.
Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands FROM THE PUBLISHER
In Nuclear Nativity, Carucci explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of apocalypse, and gestures of extraordinary generosity are among the means by which Enewetak and Ujelang people celebrate the festival. Carucci thoroughly investigates the empowering aspects of these ritual devices. He gives special attention to the array of valu ables and intricate scenarios of exchange - including food and money, speeches and songs - and illuminates the ways that people create histories of Kurijmoj tracing the festival to its ancient or Christian sources depending on their positions or status in the community. Carucci's book will engage Pacific anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars interested in the anthropology of religion and ritual.
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The four-month festival of the Enewetak and Ujelang people of the Marshall Islands has its origins in a Christmas celebration taught to islanders by missionaries in the 1920s, and gained new significance when natives of Enewetak Atoll were relocated because of nuclear bomb testing during WWII. This investigation explores the empowering aspects of the festival, such as feasts, games, dances, and songs of apocalypse, and illuminates differences in the ways islanders create histories of the festival depending on their status in the community. Includes b&w photos. Of interest to anthropologists and ethnographers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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