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The Politics of Prohibition on Namoluk Atoll

Mac Marshall

SUMMARY. The drinking patterns and the attempt to institute prohibition during 1969-71 on Namoluk Atoll, in the Eastern Caroline Islands, are described. The question of prohibition became a symbol of an inter generational struggle for political power, which was eventually won by the younger antiprohibitionists.