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Rooted Resolve chronicles the various ways that people advocate for themselves and their needs, from traditional medicine and Indigenous rights to reproductive health, religious practices and sustainability.

It draws on my own ethnographic fieldwork in the Marquesas Islands and years of investigative research.

It is a celebration of what anthropologists call agency, or the ability to take action and shape the events in our lives.

In these challenging times, it is a bid for hope.