COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- SERIES-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 MICRONESIAN/MACROFUSION -- Summary of the book -- CHAPTER 2 MICRONESIANS: THE PEOPLE IN HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- Anthropology's history -- History's anthropology -- German administration -- Japan's South Sea colonies -- Post-Second World War -- Contemporary anthropology -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3 FLUID BOUNDARIES: HORIZONS OF THE LOCAL, COLONIAL AND DISCIPLINARY -- Geographical constructs -- The Pacific environment -- Historical constructs -- Anthropological constructs -- Linguistic constructs -- Constructed seascapes -- Political constructs -- Pacific archaeological constructs -- Micronesia, archaeological constructs -- CHAPTER 4 SETTLING THE SEASCAPE: FUSING ISLANDS AND PEOPLE -- Local motifs -- Motivations -- Archaeological and proxy environmental evidence -- Western Micronesia -- Eastern Micronesia -- Biological and physical anthropology -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5 IDENTIFYING DIFFERENCE: THE MARIANA ISLANDS -- History of settlement -- Early Period -- Intermediate Period -- Transitional Period -- Latte Period -- Post-Latte flux -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6 A SEA OF ISLANDS: PALAU, YAP AND THE CAROLINIAN ATOLLS -- Palau (Belau) -- The Southwest Islands -- Ngulu -- Yap -- Carolinian atolls -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7 'HOW THE PAST SPEAKS HERE!' - THE EASTERN CAROLINE ISLANDS -- Chuuk Lagoon -- Pohnpei -- Kosrae -- Leluh -- The main island complexes -- Dispersed settlements -- Lela Ruins -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8 ISLANDS AND BEACHES: THE ATOLL GROUPS AND OUTLIERS -- The Marshall Islands -- Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) -- Banaba (Ocean Island) and Nauru -- Banaba -- Nauru -- Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi -- Nukuoro -- Kapingamarangi -- Summary -- CHAPTER 9 THE TROPICAL NORTH-WEST PACIFIC IN CONTEXT -- Fusion -- Fluidity.

Flux -- The future of the past -- Archaeological anthropologies -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.