Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethnographic Artifacts 1
5. Part I Ethnography as a Personal Dilemma
6. Chapter 2 The Politics of Representation on a Polynesian Atoll 21
7. Chapter 3 On Not Knowing One's Place 43
8. Chapter 4 A Question of Audience: The Effects of What We Write 61
9. Chapter 5 The Politics of Ethnography in New Zealand 86
10. Part II Regarding Ethnography
11. Chapter 6 The Tikopia and "What Raymond Said" 107
12. Chapter 7 Will the True Ethnographer Step Forward: The Asmat Case 124
13. Chapter 8 Writing about Culture and Talking about God: Christian Ethnography in Melanesia 150
14. Chapter 9 The Enigmatic Baining: The Breaking of an Ethnographer's Heart 174
15. Chapter 10 Epilogue: Ethnography as a Social System Parts, Wholes, and Holes 195
16. References 209
17. Contributors 243
18. Index 247