Pacific Asia Inquiry Vol. 11, Number 1, Fall 2020

Vol. 11, Number 1, Fall 2020

Pacific Asia Inquiry Vol. 11, Number 1, Fall 2020


Pacific Asia Inquiry

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Volume 11, Number 1, Fall 2020
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CONTENTS

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Editorial Board Members and Policies 

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Editor’s Note
Sharon Māhealani Rowe and James D. Sellmann

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Wisdom was the Warmth of my Grandmother’s Bosom
Nawaʻa Napoleon

12

Wisdom is Mana!
Tarisi Vunidilo

13

Jesuit Presence in the Mariana Islands: A Historiographic Overview (1668-1769)
Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

44

Using Island Wisdom to Build Our Future
Mary Therese Flores Cruz

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Agroforestry in the Climate of the Marshall Islands (Green Dashboard): AnInteractive Website
Harley I. Manner, Kathleen S. Friday, Maria Haws, and Lajikit Rufus

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Inter-Species Compact is the Origin of Our Environmental Wisdom
Sutej Hugu

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Recollections of Fadang and Fanihi: The Taste and Smell of CHamoru BygoneFoods and the Challenge of Endangered Island Species
Else Demeulenaere, Donald H Rubinstein, Sveta Yamin-Pasternak, Amy Lauren
Lovecraft, and Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond

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Humility and Pride
Debra T. Cabrera

107

Using Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) to inform Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments – Guam 2019
Romina King, Marcel Higgs III, Kaylyn Bautista, and Edward Leon-Guerrero

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Interconnectedness in a "Sea of Islands"
Andrew Soh

121

The Devils of Oki-shima: A Group of Presumed Micronesian Castaways inJapan
Dirk H.R. Spennemann

133

Wisdom is Aloha
N. Kauʻi Baumhofer Merritt

134

Where Our Feet Fall: A Hula Journey into Knowledge
Sharon Māhealani Rowe

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Indigenous Islander’s Wisdom
William Jeffery

153

Correlative Thinking in Pacific Island (Micronesian) Cultural Philosophies
James D. Sellmann

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Prioritizing Sustainable Living
Carl Becker

BOOK REVIEWS

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Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America,and the Marshall Islands
By Greg Dvorak, Reviewed by Mary L. Spencer

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The Frolic of the Beasts
By Yukio Mishima, Translated by Andrew Clare, Reviewed by Chris Cabrera

195

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaiʻiand Oceania
By Maile Arvin, Reviewed by Randizia Crisostomo and Ha’ani San Nicolas

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Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women
By Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura, Eds., Reviewed by Paulette M. Coulter

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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
By James Bridle, Reviewed by C. S. Schreiner

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