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MICRONESIAN
JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
ISSN 1449-7336
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editors:
Dirk H.R. Spennemann (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Samuel McPhetres (College of the Northern Mariana Islands, CNMI)
Book Review Editor (interim)
Dirk H.R. Spennemann (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Associate Editors:
Dirk Ballendorf (Micronesian Area Research Center, Guam)
Debra Cabrera (College of the Northern Mariana Islands, CNMI)
Francis X. Hezel (Micronesian Seminar, FSM)
David W. Look (U.S. National Park Service, Oakland, USA)
Faustina K. Refuher (National Museum of Belau, Belau)
Donald Rubinstein (Micronesian Area Research Center, Guam)
Scott Russell (Humanities Council of the Northern Mariana Islands, CNMI)
James M. Vincent (College of the Northern Mariana Islands, CNMI)
Front cover: Model of a Marshallese tipnol (long-distance sailing canoe)
Published by Letao Publishing, PO Box 3080, Albury NSW, Australia
MICRONESIAN
JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Vol. 4, nº 1 Dry Season Issue June 2005
CONTENTS
Articles
The Pampangos in the Mariana Mission 1668-1684 By Augusto V. de Viana 1
Luelen Bernart. His Times, His Book, And His Inspiration By Dirk Anthony Ballendorf 17
Traditional and Nineteenth Century communication patterns in the Marshall Islands By Dirk HR Spennemann 25
Vitalizing Culture in Youth By Daniel A. Kelin, II 52
Guåhan’s Community Representation Conversation By Kelly G. Marsh 58
Review Essay
Contextualizing Our Past: P-M Lite Comes to Micronesia By Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson 69
Book Reviews
D. Colt Denfeld, Japanese World War II Fortifications and Other Military Structures in the Central Pacific.
Gordon L. Rottmann & Ian Palmer, Japanese Pacific Island Defenses 1941-1945. (reviewed by Dirk HR Spennemann) 76
Howard P. Willens and Dirk A. Ballendorf, The Secret Guam Study. Guam and Saipan (reviewed by Samuel F McPhetres) 78
Barker, Holly, Bravo for the Marshallese, Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (reviewed by Steven L. Simon) 81
