Table of Contents

1. Micronesian/macrofusion; 2. Micronesians: the people in history and anthropology; 3. Fluid boundaries: horizons of the local, colonial and disciplinary; 4. Settling the seascape: fusing islands and people; 5. Identifying difference: the Mariana Islands; 6. A sea of islands: Palau, Yap and the Carolinian Atolls; 7. 'How the past speaks here!': The Eastern Caroline Islands; 8. Islands and beaches: the atoll groups and outliers; 9. The tropical northwest Pacific in context.

Promotional Information

This book presents the first book-length archaeological study of Micronesia.

About the Author

Paul Rainbird is a Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Pacific Islands, Australia and Europe. He co-edited Interrogating Pedagogies: Archaeology in Higher Education (2001).

Reviews

"A thought-provoking work...Essential." L.A. Kimball, Western Washington University, CHOICE