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Men born between 1955 and 1965 were witnesses to or participants themselves in a traditional initiation ceremony for navigation, the pwo, held on Lamotrek in May 1990. The pwo rites-of-passage, as Eric Metzgar classifies them (1991: 188), had not been performed since 1952 (in Satawal) due to the mass conversion of the islanders to Catholicism, because the art and tradition of navigation in the Caroline Islands are both associated with beliefs in supernatural beings such as ghosts, and in magic. In addition, western influences and American values had penetrated the Lamotrekese community.
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Werle, K. (2014). Knowledge as Property. In: Landscape of Peace. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05832-6_37
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