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Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Yet Pacific War histories scarcely mention the Islanders across whose lands and seas the fighting waged.""""Memories of War"""" sets out to fill that historical gap by presenting the missing voices of Micronesians and by viewing those years from their perspectives. The focus is on Micronesian remembrances - the ritual commemorations, features of the landscape, stories, dances, and songs that keep their memories of the conflict alive. The inclusion of numerous and extensive interviews and songs is an important feature of this book, allowing Micronesians to speak for themselves about their experiences. In addition, they also reveal distinctively Micronesian cultural memories of war.

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9780824831301

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This splendid record of Micronesian wartime recollections, frozen in print, may become more canonical than had they remained as living songs and dances--but then, only time and further memory-work will tell.-- ""Journal of Pacific History (44:2, September 2009)""

This splendid record of Micronesian wartime recollections, frozen in print, may become more canonical than had they remained as living songs and dances--but then, only time and further memory-work will tell.-- Journal of Pacific History (44:2, September 2009)

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Suzanne Falgout is professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu. Lin Poyer is professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Laurence M. Carucci is professor of anthropology at Montana State University.

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