The cultural revitalisation of voyaging in the Marshall Islands is gaining momentum under extraordinary social conditions involving shifting protocols in the use of navigational knowledge. The first phase of the project (2005-2009) facilitated an elder from Rongelap in achieving the social status of a titled navigator, a process that involved delicate negotiation between chiefly permission to share knowledge and the resulting loss of meaning and prestige. For the first time, the sharing of the Rongelapese knowledge extended beyond direct family lines of inheritance to an apprentice navigator. The second phase of the project (2010-2015) involved the apprentice undertaking a voyage without the guidance of the master navigator. I contend that an apprentice navigator demonstrating his prowess without the teacher is unprecedented under the enduring chiefly protocols on the restricted use of specialist knowledge in the Rongelapese community, but that such a shift in etiquette might be the only viable path to ensure cultural survival amidst encroaching environmental and social impacts.

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没有先例：使用Rongelapese导航知识的转换协议

在非同寻常的社会条件下，涉及使用航行知识的协议发生变化的情况下，马绍尔群岛航行的文化复兴正在蓬勃发展。该项目的第一阶段（2005-2009年）促进了Rongelap的一位年长者获得有标题的导航员的社会地位，这一过程涉及在主要允许共享知识和由此造成的意义和声誉丧失之间进行微妙的谈判。Rongelapese知识的共享第一次超越了直接的家族继承权，扩展到了学徒导航员。该项目的第二阶段（2010-2015年）涉及学徒在主导航员的指导下进行航行。