Healing the Wounds of History
Remembering the Language of Mollusk Collecting By Judith R. Amesbury and Angelina Pangelinan Senior faunal analyst and Archaeologist Kleinfelder Abstract: This presentation reports on a project funded by Humanities Guåhan (Guam Humanities Council) to collect Chamorro/CHamoru names of mollusks and other invertebrates. The names were collected from elderly Chamorro speakers. The informants provided other information about mollusk collecting as well. The project helps to heal two wounds of history: 1) During the Spanish colonization, Chamorro society was changed from a seafaring society to an agricultural society; 2) During the American colonization, the used of Chamorro language was limited. By writing information about the collection of mollusks and other invertebrates, this project made a record of a part of the history and culture of Chamorro people.
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