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Representative Publications
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Ambivalent Fantasies: Local Prehistories and Global Dramas in the Marshall Islands. 2008, Journal of Folklore Research.
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Modernism and Pacific Ways at Knowing: An Uneasy Dialogue in Micronesia. 2007 Pacific Rim Studies 1(1): 7-24.
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Introductary Note "Folklore, Nationalism, and the Challenge of the Future," in The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays in Folklore, William Wilson. Ed. Jill Terry Rudy. Logan: Utah State University Press. 2006.
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Narrative, Cosmos, and Nation: Intertextuality and Power in the Marshall Islands. 2004. Journal of American Folklore 462: 1.
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Oceania: An Overview. In CultureGrams: World Addition, Vol IV (Asia and Oceania). 2002. Lindon: Axiom Press.
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Narrating to the Center of Power in the Marshall Islands. 2000. We are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in the Contruction of Ethnic Identity. P. Spickard & J. Burroughs, eds, Temple University Press.
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More Than Meets the Ear: A Marshallese Example of Folklore Method and Study for Pacific Collections. 1997. PIALA: Identifying, Using and Sharing Loval Resources. pp. 49-71. University of Guam.
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"Oceania." A Companion to Folklore. 2012. Regina Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem, Eds. Wiley-Blackwell Press. Pp. 248-264.
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Recent Presentations
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Re-Engendering and Regeneration of the Cosmos: Performing Local Inversions of Global Forces in the Marshall Islands. 2008. American Folklore Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
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A Prehistory of Atomic Bombs, Cheese Balls, and Global Fantasies; viz, How The Marshallese Trickster Made America Dangerous. 2008, University of California, Berkeley, Folklore Roundtable lecture series.
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Ambivalent Histories in the Marshall Islands: Local Prehistories of the Contemporary Global. 2006. Pacific History Association.
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Ambivalent Fantasies: Local Prehistories and Global Dramas in the Marshall Islands. 2005. American Folklore Society.
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Modernism and Pacific Ways of Knowing: An Uneasy Dialogue in Micronesia. 2004. A Pacific Symposium on Identity and Culture.
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Tricksters, Christianity, and Gender: Locally Global Inversions of Power in Marshallese Performance. 2004. American Folklore Society.
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A Tricky Identity in the Marshall Islands: Dismantling the Essentialized Local and Exploring the Ambiguous Global. 2003. American Folklore Society.
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To Laugh and Cry with the "Natives": On Liminal Figures Such as the Marshallese Trickster and a Folklorist. 2002. American Folklore Society.
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Shadows, Curtains, and a Shiny Canoe...to Consider (earnestly) the Uncertainty of Meaning. David O. McKay Annual Lecture. Selected by the faculty of BYU–Hawaii. Laie, HI 2013
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Narrative Battles in the Marshall Islands Post-colonial State. American Folklore Society, Bloomington, IN, 2011
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Katoanga'i'o e Uike Lea Faka-Tonga. Lea Fakalangilangi. Guest Speaker, Tongan Language Week Celebration. Laie, HI, 2011
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The Land of Loss, or Land as a Marshallese Metaphor for Local and Global Violence. European Society for Oceanists, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2010.
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From Marshall Islands to Idaho and Back Again: The Dialogic Ethnography and the Play of Tricksters. American Folklore Society, Boise, Idaho, 2009
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