'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 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 discoveries illuminate the evolution of a culture possibly distant from yet important to people living in other parts of the world.' --BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc.

Nest in the Wind Nest in the Wind. In this paper, I am going to write a summary of each chapter along with my understanding on social behaviors that are identified. Oct 01, 2004 Nest in the Wind has 197 ratings and 15 reviews. Hardcover, Second Edition, 178 pages. Published January 1st 2005 by Waveland Press.

All Rights Reserved.

Amazon.com Product Description (, Paperback) On a magnificent island in the middle of the Pacific lives a people who eat dogs, grow quarter-ton yams in secret, stage extraordinarily dramatic feasts, have exceptionally relaxed attitudes about sex, and ritually share a potent drink called kava. Nest in the Wind is a very personal record of the field experiences of a female anthropologist who managed a scientific research project on the lush, tropical island of Pohnpei in the early 1970s. Lalafo. Her picture of life on Pohnpei is gripping and accurate: living in a tin shack, speaking a new language, observing manners and following customs, finding food, adopting a son, earning a high title, becoming pregnant, and overcoming spells placed on her.

The standard questions of ethnography, including family life, sex, childbirth, economics, politics, religion, medicine, magic and death, are thoroughly addressed, clothed in the easy format of personal experiences with real people. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:14:35 -0400).

Nest In The Wind Second Edition Sparknotes Great Isle of Ely - Outlawe. Wulf is on one island I on another. As with similar. Areas in the Netherlands. Dear Auntie SparkNotes, I am, as the kids say. But there was no wind blowing. It's not ladylike -in the second place, folks don't. Biography; Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Drama; Economics. SparkNotes is brought to. Inherit the Wind Invisible Man Jane Eyre Joy Luck Club. Pride and Prejudice Prince. 2ND EDITION by Paul Soifer.