Positioning the Pitcairn Islands
Abstract
This note both introduces a cluster of articles on the Pitcairn Islands and unpacks the current climate of urgency around recording, and protecting, the distinctive features of Pitcairn Island's language, lore and folklife, due to a rapidly declining population and currently faltering repopulation efforts.
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