Table of contents : Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Robert C. Kiste and Mac Marshall CHAPTER ONE. Anthropology and Micronesia: The Context CHAPTER TWO. Magellan’s Chroniclers? American Anthropology’s History in Micronesia CHAPTER THREE. Cultural Ecology and Ecological Anthropology in Micronesia CHAPTER FOUR. “Partial Connections”: Kinship and Social Organization in Micronesia CHAPTER FIVE. Politics in Postwar Micronesia CHAPTER SIX. Ethnicity and Identity in Micronesia CHAPTER SEVEN. Psychological Anthropology and Its Discontents: Science and Rhetoric in Postwar Micronesia CHAPTER EIGHT. Missed Opportunities: American Anthropological Studies of Micronesian Arts CHAPTER NINE. American Anthropology’s Contribution to Social Problems Research in Micronesia CHAPTER TEN. Staking Ground: Medical Anthropology, Health, and Medical Services in Micronesia CHAPTER ELEVEN. Anthropology and the Law in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands CHAPTER TWELVE. Ripples from a Micronesian Sea CHAPTER THIRTEEN. A Half Century in Retrospect APPENDIX 1. American Anthropologists in Micronesia Research Projects and Positions APPENDIX 2. Micronesia Anthropology Dissertations Accepted by US Universities, 1949–1997 APPENDIX 3. The “Tiny Islands”: A Comparable Impact on the Larger Discipline? References Contributors Subject Index Name Index