Being Marshallese and Christian: A case of multiple identities and contradictory beliefs

Rudiak-Gould, Peter

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“…It is not the belief per se, but religious belief used as rhetoric which informs these identities. Rudiak-Gould (2009) in this volume speaks of 'situational beliefs' in the context of his research in the Marshall Islands where people bring forth certain identities, to legitimate certain -even contradictory -beliefs. This instrumental use of identity echoes the way in which religious identity and belief are used for persuasion in my research.…”

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The rhetoric of belief and identity making in the experience of infertility

Demircioğlu¹

2010

Culture and Religion

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Based on the research about infertility experiences of women and demand for in vitro fertilisation treatment in Turkey, this paper discusses how the rhetorical strategies employed by childless women bring meaning to their infertility experience as well as help them attain adult gender identity. It also briefly touches on men's experiences of infertility. The author argues that the prevalent references to the almightiness of God do not indicate religious beliefs alone. Through the instrumental use of religious discourse, these references can be considered the rhetoric of religious belief.

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The rhetoric of belief and identity making in the experience of infertility

Demircioğlu¹

2010

Culture and Religion

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“…Pacific Islanders have been told many times before that their homelands are tiny, remote, and inherently vulnerable; this is not an invention of the climate change era, but a longstanding colonial trope that has merely been reinvented and reinvigorated in today's environmental narratives (Barnett and Campbell, 2010;Farbotko, 2005Farbotko, , 2010Hau'ofa, 1993). It is essential also to consider previous work on Pacific Islanders' practical, social, and spiritual attachment to land (Campbell, 2010), now a key influence on their approaches to climate change (see Newell, Hermann and Kempf, Struck-Garbe, Nolet this volume), as well as pre-existing discourses of decline and progress, decaying culture and increasing sin, missionary salvation and virtuous modernization (Tomlinson, 2004;Rudiak-Gould, 2010), which are now being used to understood climate change (Newell, Nolet, this volume;Rudiak-Gould, 2012b). We must also take guidance from previous scholarly documentation of islanders' great environmental knowledge, gained through gardening, fishing, sailing, and sheer curiosity, now undergoing processes of both decay and invigoration (Johannes, 2002), both of them partly as a result of climate change.…”

Section: Discourses Of Climate Change In the Pacificmentioning

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Pacific Climate Cultures

Rudiak-Gould¹,

Crook²

2018

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Climate Change Discourse, Song Culture and Emotions in Kiribati 21 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 Song Culture in Kiribati 24 2.3 Emotions in the Face of Climate Change Discourse in Kiribati 25 2.4 The Song "Koburake!" 26 2.5 Anticipation and Emotions 29 2.6 Conclusion 32 Cecilie Rubow 3 Woosh-Cyclones as Culturalnatural Whirls: The Receptions of Climate Change in the Cook Islands 34 3.1 Stormy Weather 34 3.2 Climate Change Whirls 36 3.3 A Double Cyclogenesis 38 3.4 The Cyclones Multiple 40 3.5 Climate Projections and New Futures 42 Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson 4 Crafting Certainty in Liquid Worlds: Encountering Climate Change in Kiribati 45 4.1 Introduction 45 4.2 The Reception of Climate Change in Kiribati 47 4.3 The Navigator: Skills for Reading the Weather 49 4.4 If You Are Going to Be a Traveller… 50 4.5 Crafting Futures: The Certainty of Navigation 56 4.6 Concluding Remarks 58 Emilie Nolet 5 A Tsunami from the Mountains: Interpreting the Nadi Flood 60 5.1 Introduction: "A Tsunami from the Mountains" 60 5.2 Explaining the Floods 62 5.3 Coping with Flood Risks 67 5.4 Conclusion 71 John Connell 6 Nothing There Atoll? "Farewell to the Carteret Islands" 73 6.1 Introduction 73 6.2 (Mis)representing the Islands? 74 6.3 Thinking About Sinking 79 6.4 The Carteret Islands: A Recent History 80 6.5 Inside the Garbage Can 83 6.6 Conclusion: 2015 and All That 86 Jennifer Newell 7 Weathering Climate Change in Samoa: Cultural Resources for Resilience 88 7.1 Sources of Resilience 92 7.2 "Nothing New": A Tradition of Adaptability 94 7.3 It is Not 'I' but 'We' 96 7.4 A Higher Power 96 7.5 Skilled Voyagers, Rooted to Place 97 7.6 On Family Land 98 7.7 Managing the Tangible World 100 7.8 Undermining the Fale Pillars 102 7.9 Climate Change as a Cultural Resource 104 7.10 Conclusion 105 Marion Struck-Garbe 8 Reflections on Climate Change by Contemporary Artists in Papua New Guinea 106 8.1 Introduction 106 8.2 Climate Change in Papua New Guinea 107 8.3 Sinking Islands 108 8.4 Displacement and Resettlement 111 8.5 Coral Bleaching and Overfishing 113 8.6 Deforestation 114 8.7 Pacific Islands and the Global Challenge 118 Joeli Veitayaki, Elisabeth Holland 9 Lessons from Lomani Gau Project, Fiji: A Local Community's Response to Climate Change 121 9.1 Introduction 121 9.2 Gau Island: The Setting 123 9.3 The Engagement Process 126 9.4 The Accomplishments 130 9.5 The Challenges 134 9.6 The Lessons Learned and Way Forward 136 Nalau Bingeding 10 Papua New Guinea's Response to Climate Change: Challenges and Ways Forward 139 His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi Prelude: Climate Change and the Perspective of the Fish Fundamentally the problem of climate change is a problem of arrogance and greed. If we want to seriously address the critical issues that face our world today we have to come up with something that is bold enough to allow us to say the unsayable. In other words, what is constructive in this search for answers is also what is most hard to say. Arrogance and greed are human vices that speak to the weaker side of ourselves;...

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“…Generosity is valued across the Pacific and across the life course in Jajikon (Mauss [1950]; Schieffelin ; Strathern ). Jajikonians see generosity as central to both Marshallese and Christian (everyone is Christian) ways of life (Rudiak‐Gould ). As an 11‐year‐old girl explained, “Enana tōr … Rej jar im relak ba, an won tōr?…”

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Negotiating Age: Direct Speech and the Sociolinguistic Production of Childhood in theMarshallIslands

Berman

2014

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Children in the Republic of the Marshall Islands regularly do a number of things that are inappropriate or even taboo among adults: they walk with food that they do not offer to share; they refuse to give; they directly demand things; and they directly criticize and insult each other. One explanation for their behavior is that they are too developmentally immature to speak in the indirect and polite manner of adults. But I show that, while Marshallese children's apparently direct forms of speech are indeed linked to immaturity, they are linked to immaturity not as a developmental stage but as a social status. Hence, this article reveals, discusses, and challenges two different ideologies of childhood and language: (1) a Western ideology that associates directness with developmental immaturity; and (2) a Marshallese ideology that associates "not hiding"-either words or goods-with being a child. Through their apparently direct forms of speech, children negotiate their relative age and power relationships with each other while simultaneously constructing each other as peers and indexing participants as immature relative to adults. This analysis reveals how age and childhood are produced through speech and considers the implications of this production for understandings of language variation and socialization.

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Being Marshallese and Christian: A case of multiple identities and contradictory beliefs

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

The rhetoric of belief and identity making in the experience of infertility

The rhetoric of belief and identity making in the experience of infertility

Pacific Climate Cultures

Negotiating Age: Direct Speech and the Sociolinguistic Production of Childhood in theMarshallIslands

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