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"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

Who reads Nest in the Wind : Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island?

Author

Martha C. Ward; [illustrations by Nancy Zoder Dawes]

Publisher

Waveland Press, Incorporated

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780881334050

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social Science

Rating

3.53 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14