Lynn Wilson

• FIGURES -- PREFACE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Placing the Research -- Explaning Belau -- Entering Belau -- Writing the Text -- 2. LOCATING BELAU -- Developing Colonial Interests -- Strategic Trust and Solomon Strategies -- Belau’s Constitution and Proposals for Free Association -- 3. NOTIONS OF POWER -- Theoretical Shifts -- Poststructural and Feminist Analytics -- Foucault and Power -- Constructing the Text -- 4. FAMILY AND CLAN -- Representing Gabriela -- Land Relations -- Locating Olngebang -- Genealogy and Stories of Olngebang -- Telling the Stories -- 5. FOOD AND MONEY -- Defining Responsibilities -- Negotiating Relations -- Expanding Obligations and Clan Fights -- 6. CLUBS, ELECTIONS, AND COMPACTS -- Forming Clubs -- Shaping Elections -- Confronting Compacts -- Women and Politics -- 7. POSTPONING CONCLUSION -- Appendix A: Palauan Pronunciation -- Appendix B: Glossary of Palauan Terms -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Lynn Wilson

• FIGURES -- PREFACE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Placing the Research -- Explaning Belau -- Entering Belau -- Writing the Text -- 2. LOCATING BELAU -- Developing Colonial Interests -- Strategic Trust and Solomon Strategies -- Belau’s Constitution and Proposals for Free Association -- 3. NOTIONS OF POWER -- Theoretical Shifts -- Poststructural and Feminist Analytics -- Foucault and Power -- Constructing the Text -- 4. FAMILY AND CLAN -- Representing Gabriela -- Land Relations -- Locating Olngebang -- Genealogy and Stories of Olngebang -- Telling the Stories -- 5. FOOD AND MONEY -- Defining Responsibilities -- Negotiating Relations -- Expanding Obligations and Clan Fights -- 6. CLUBS, ELECTIONS, AND COMPACTS -- Forming Clubs -- Shaping Elections -- Confronting Compacts -- Women and Politics -- 7. POSTPONING CONCLUSION -- Appendix A: Palauan Pronunciation -- Appendix B: Glossary of Palauan Terms -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Lynn Wilson

• FIGURES -- PREFACE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Placing the Research -- Explaning Belau -- Entering Belau -- Writing the Text -- 2. LOCATING BELAU -- Developing Colonial Interests -- Strategic Trust and Solomon Strategies -- Belau’s Constitution and Proposals for Free Association -- 3. NOTIONS OF POWER -- Theoretical Shifts -- Poststructural and Feminist Analytics -- Foucault and Power -- Constructing the Text -- 4. FAMILY AND CLAN -- Representing Gabriela -- Land Relations -- Locating Olngebang -- Genealogy and Stories of Olngebang -- Telling the Stories -- 5. FOOD AND MONEY -- Defining Responsibilities -- Negotiating Relations -- Expanding Obligations and Clan Fights -- 6. CLUBS, ELECTIONS, AND COMPACTS -- Forming Clubs -- Shaping Elections -- Confronting Compacts -- Women and Politics -- 7. POSTPONING CONCLUSION -- Appendix A: Palauan Pronunciation -- Appendix B: Glossary of Palauan Terms -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.