Nest in the Wind Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island 2nd Edition by Martha Ward – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 1577663683, 9781577663683
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ISBN 10: 1577663683
ISBN 13: 9781577663683
Author: Martha C. Ward
During her first visit to the beautiful island of Pohnpei in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, anthropologist Martha Ward discovered people who grew quarter-ton yams in secret and ritually shared a powerful drink called kava. She managed a medical research project, ate dog, became pregnant, and responded to spells placed on her. Thirty years later she returned to Pohnpei to learn what had happened there since her first visit. Were islanders still relaxed and casual about sex? Were they still obsessed with titles and social rank? Was the island still lush and beautiful? Had the inhabitants remained healthy? This second edition of Ward’s best-selling account is a rare, longitudinal study that tracks people, processes, and a place through decades of change. It is also an intimate record of doing fieldwork that immerses readers in the sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and the sensory richness of Pohnpei. Ward addresses the ageless ethnographic questions about family life, politics, religion, traditional medicine, magic, and death together with contemporary concerns about postcolonial survival, the discontinuities of culture, and adaptation to the demands of a global age. Her insightful discoveries illuminate the evolution of a culture possibly distant from yet important to people living in other parts of the world.
Nest in the Wind Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island 2nd Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Fruit in the Hands of the Gods
Chapter 2: Green Leaves on Stories
Chapter 3: Water Running under Boulders
Chapter 4: Smoke Follows the High People
Chapter 5: A Locked Box
Chapter 6: The Ends of Canoes
Chapter 7: The Core of a Mangrove Log
Chapter 8: Between Times
Chapter 9: You Cannot Hate with Kava in You
Chapter 10: It Takes an Outrigger to Float a Canoe
Chapter 11: Our World Itself Is an Island
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