(23) open, honest, funny - "I dropped my fantasy life, vowed never to enter the open ocean again, and prayed to the gods who protect naive anthropologists. Ian reported that my pulse rate was climbing."
(24) brief though engaging scene - ghosts on a path
(26) "Preserved breadfruit tastes like exotic, very ripe cheese and will never replace Hershey bars."
(27-8) "They kept repeating the question until I gave them a satisfactory answer.
'My mother is watching my pig.'" - funny
(29-30) thorough description of sexual relations in Pohnpei - (31-2) uses PC stories for examples
(34) I've noticed that Ward included herself here and there - spending many pages on this and that custom/description, history. she may have hit upon a nice balance of the two - while she herself has not done much yet (arrived, sat in on ceremonies, travelled to the other side of the isle by boat) - it is not her story as such that is the focus
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