Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Abbreviations xix
7. Introduction: Robert Kiste and Mac Marshall 1
8. CHAPTER ONE. Anthropology and Micronesia: The Context 11
9. CHAPTER TWO. Magellan’s Chroniclers? American Anthropology’s History in Micronesia 53
10. CHAPTER THREE. Cultural Ecology and Ecological Anthropology in Micronesia 81
11. CHAPTER FOUR. “Partial Connections”: Kinship and Social Organization in Micronesia 107
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Politics in Postwar Micronesia 145
13. CHAPTER SIX. Ethnicity and Identity in Micronesia 197
14. CHAPTER SEVEN. Psychological Anthropology and Its Discontents: Science and Rhetoric in Postwar Micronesia 225
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. Missed Opportunities: American Anthropological Studies of Micronesian Arts 255
16. CHAPTER NINE. American Anthropology’s Contribution to Social Problems Research in Micronesia 301
17. CHAPTER TEN. Staking Ground: Medical Anthropology, Health, and Medical Services in Micronesia 327
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Anthropology and the Law in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 361
19. CHAPTER TWELVE. Ripples from a Micronesian Sea 387
20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. A Half Century in Retrospect 433
21. APPENDIX 1. American Anthropologists in Micronesia Research Projects and Positions 469
22. APPENDIX 2. Micronesia Anthropology Dissertations Accepted by US Universities, 1949–1997 475
23. APPENDIX 3. The “Tiny Islands”: A Comparable Impact on the Larger Discipline? 485
24. References 515
25. Contributors 611
26. Subject Index 613
27. Name Index 625