Before the Second World War, relatively few American anthropologists had worked in the Pacific, and Micronesia was virtually unknown. After the war, the U.S. Navy sponsored the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian ...

The powerful position of patrons and interpreters at the imperial centers and the secondary, supportive position of colonial contributors to the scientific enterprise have been emphasized in the literature on colonial ...

European explorers and naturalists made many contributions to the discovery and description of New Zealand's natural history. These contributions are examined with respect to the scientific traditions of England, France, ...