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• Prologue: Guam : center of the First Province
• Aliens 1521-1638
• The place of before time ancestors 1638-1662
• Father San Vitores 1662-1672
• The Spanish conquest 1672-1698
• Oasis in the ocean 1698-1800
• Twilight of Pax Hispanica 1800-1898
• The Anglo-Saxon way 1898-1903
• Ordered tranquility 1903-1918
• The quest for identity 1918-1941
• The way of the Samurai 1941-1944
• Return of the Americans 1944-1945
• Gibraltar of the American lake 1945-1950
• Under the Organic Act 1950-1970
• Ocean chrysalis 1970-1980
• Unfinished quests 1980-1990
• Recession 1990-2003
• Epilogue: Guam : a neocolonial anachronism.

Provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert islands and the island nation of Nauru.
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A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions - sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex - resulted from the U.S. navy's introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam's native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of native midwives and nurses, and the creation and operation of the Susana Hospital for women and children. Changes to Guam's traditional systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on Chamorro bodies, but also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and economic expectations. Hattori effectively demonstrates that the new health projects signified more than a benevolent interest in hygiene and the philanthropic sharing of medical knowledge. Rather the navy's health care regime in Guam was an important vehicle through which U.S. colonial power and moral authority over Chamorros was introduced and entrenched. Medical experts, navy doctors, and health care workers asserted their scientific knowledge as well as their administrative might and in the process became active participants in the colonization of Guam.
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• Introduction
• The state of exception
• War bodies
• War crimes
• The bird and the lizard
• Native assailants
• Native murderers
• The military colony
• Japanese traitors
• Japanese militarists
• Conclusion

Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified the imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho argues, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The State of Exception
• 1. War Bodies 29
• 2. War Crimes 60 Part II. The Bird and the Lizard
• 3. Native Assailants 89
• 4. Native Murderers 116 Part III. The Military Colony
• 5. Japanese Traitors 149
• 6. Japanese Militarists 181 Conclusion 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 269 Index 283.
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Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified the imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho argues, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state.
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"For the first time, Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). In this book, poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez navigates the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics, diasporic migrations, and native aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher