Includes bibliographical references.

The anthropologist has no clothes: revealing experiences from fieldwork / Mac Marshall -- Is fieldwork art of 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 enthnographer: 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 inTonga / 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 C. Cook and Susan M. Pflanz-Cook -- An anthropologist as travel writer / Robert Tonkinson -- A long voyage / Ben Finney.