Consuming Ocean Island Jane Mather two infants

two infants

Each discovery led to a surge in mountain tourism and interest in the mountains and their indigenous highlanders

What is it about the human psyche that gives us such a lurid fascination with all things related to death

bodily nature

and linguistic identities

Consuming Ocean Island Jane Mather two infantsThe Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment. Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the islands surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans