For the people of Guam, World War II divided their modern history into three distinct periods: ante de i guerra, durante i guerra, and despues de i guerra―before the war, during the war, and after the war. Ben Blaz was thirteen years old when the Japanese invaded, and Bisita Guam is his story. illus.

Bisita Guam: Let Us Remember (Nihi Ta Hasso): Remembrances of the Occupation Years in World War II (Marc Publications Series)

History

Blaz, Ben

Australia & Oceania

Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center

This work is a compilation of references to la lepra (leprosy) in the Mariana Islands during the Spanish Administration (1668–1898). The references are found primarily in documents housed in the Spanish Documents Collection of the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam. A brief addenda encompasses references from the American Naval Administration of Guam and the post–World War II period, 1899–1949.illus.

Lepers in the Mariana Islands during the Spanish Administration, 1668-1898, and Addenda (1899-1949) (Marc Educational Series)

Driver, Marjorie G.

"Van Peenen’s little book is one of the few records of Chamorro oral tradition and is therefore an invaluable source for cultural memory as well as the study of how Chamorro identity changed from centuries of cultural submergence, and clearly bears the marks of cultural domination. . . . Despite her politically incorrect diversions, Van Peenen has done a great service for Chamorro culture and identity." ―from the Introduction by John A. Peterson
Text in English and Spanish

Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam (Marc Publications Series)

Peenen, Mavis Warner Van

Religion & Spirituality

"Under this modest title is hidden one of the world’s most fascinating volumes. The author, who apparently came as close to knowing everything possible in modern times, was professionally both a botanist in the United States Department of Agriculture and a lieutenant in the United States Navy. In this latter capacity he served for a year as assistant governor of Guam. In somewhat over four hundred pages he not only takes up all the native and crop plants of any importance, but also touches on such subjects as the history of pirates in the Pacific, how floating seeds led to the discovery of ocean currents, the grammar of the native language, the actual anatomical means by which stinging plants attain their devilish ends, and the aspect of the various kinds of tropical vegetation on the island , each of these digressions being developed with finicky regard for accuracy and appropriately embellished with authoritative footnotes." ―Edgar Anderson, botanist and author of Man, Plants, and Life

Useful Plants of Guam: A Facsimile Edition Reprint of the Original Book Published in 1905

Science & Math

Stafford, William Edwin

Biological Sciences

The structure known as the Governor’s Palace during Guam’s Spanish period and Goverment House during its American naval period, has remained an integral part of present-day Agaña. This volume records the findings of archaeological excavations that began in 1983.

The Archaeology of the Governor's Palace (Plaza de Espana, Agana, Guam) (Marc Monograph)

Schuetz, Mardith K.

In this anthropological study of a neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) in Guam, Western Pacific, Verena Keck intertwines three separate perspectives of history, medicine, and anthropology. The book is an important contribution to the long overdue decolonizing of biomedical research and argues that neurological diseases can be better understood if they are seen, too, as social and cultural phenomena. With sound ethnography linked to current, controversial debates in neurology, the author breaks new ground; her insights add to the hitherto few anthropological studies of neurodegenerative diseases in non-Western societies.

The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific

Politics & Social Sciences

Keck, Verena

Anthropology

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