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The

Humbled

Anthropologist:

Tales from the

Pacific

edited by

Philip DeVita


1990

Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company

from 1988 Working Session

Preface
Phil DeVita
 
Introduction: The Anthropologist Has No Clothes: Revealing Experiences from Fieldwork
Mac Marshall
 
Is Fieldwork Art or Science?
Dorothy K. Billings
 
The First Rotumans
Alan Howard
 
Two Tales from the Trukese Taproom
Mac Marshall
 
Too Many Bananas, Not Enough Pineapples, and No Watermelon at All: Three Object Lessons in Living with Reciprocity
David Counts
 
"Did You?"
Ward H. Goodenough
 
Ethnocentrism and the Abelam
Richard Scaglion
 
What Did the Earthquake Mean?
Alice Pomponio
 
Reflections of a Shy Ethnographer: Foot-in-the Mouth Is Not Fatal
Juliana Flinn
 
What's So Funny About That? Fieldwork and Laughter in Polynesia
Richard Feinberg
 
Cultural Baggage
Joyce D. Hammond
 
Raising a Few Eyebrows in Tonga
Elizabeth P. Hahn
 
The Projection from Pohnpei
Glenn Petersen
 
The Politics of Ethnography: Americans on Tanna
Lamont Lindstrom
 
"Pigs of the Forest" and Other Unwritten Papers
Terence E. Hays
 
To Die on Ambae: On the Possibility of Doing Fieldwork Forever
William L. Rodman and Margaret C. Rodman
 
A Letter from the Field
Marty Zelenietz
 
The Sorcerer's Rainstone
James B. Watson
 
Amgoi: Entrepreneurial Muck-up
Edwin A. Cook and Susan M. Pflanz-Cook
 
An Anthropologist as Travel Writer
Robert Tonkinson
 
A Long Voyage
Ben Finney

     

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