American Anthropology in Micronesia : : An Assessment / / ed. by Mac Marshall, Robert Kiste.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alkire, William,; Black, Peter,; Falgout, Suzanne,; Hanlon, David,; Hays, Terence,; Hezel, Francis,; King, Edward,; Kiste, Robert,; Marshall, Mac,; Nero, Karen,; Petersen, Glenn,; Poyer, Lin,; Rubinstein, Donald,
• HerausgeberIn: Kiste, Robert,; Marshall, Mac,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.)

This text evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the US colonial administration and the discipline of anthropology itself. It analyzes the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examines the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of sociocultural anthropology. The text concentrates on disciplinary concerns, but also considers the connections between work done in the era of applied anthropology and that completed later when anthropology was persued mainly for its own sake.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Robert 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