Sharyn Jones is assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

This book is an engaging and informative piece of work. Jones accomplishes what many of us would like to do: live and work within a close-knit community to gain greater insight into traditional behaviors and then examine how this information can be extrapolated and compared to the archaeological record. This ethnoarchaeological approach to understanding Fijian lifeways, particularly as it relates to subsistence strategies, will be a useful resource for anthropologists and archaeologists alike—not just in the Pacific—but elsewhere in contexts where researchers are looking for novel ways to integrate human-environmental interactions across a diachronic spectrum.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. Fieldwork: Motivations, Plans, and RealitiesChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Environmental and Social Landscape: The Lau Islands, FijiChapter 4 Chapter 3. Foodways and Social Relations in the Past and PresentChapter 5 Chapter 4. Food Consumption Patterns and Refuse DisposalChapter 6 Chapter 5. Lauan FishingChapter 7 Chapter 6. Food in the Lau Islands and Its Implications for Ethnoarchaeology and ArchaeologyChapter 8 Appendix A: Archaeological MethodsChapter 9 Appendix B: Structured Ethnographic Interviews Conducted on Nayau, October and November 2003

Sharyn Jones is assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

This book is an engaging and informative piece of work. Jones accomplishes what many of us would like to do: live and work within a close-knit community to gain greater insight into traditional behaviors and then examine how this information can be extrapolated and compared to the archaeological record. This ethnoarchaeological approach to understanding Fijian lifeways, particularly as it relates to subsistence strategies, will be a useful resource for anthropologists and archaeologists alike—not just in the Pacific—but elsewhere in contexts where researchers are looking for novel ways to integrate human-environmental interactions across a diachronic spectrum.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. Fieldwork: Motivations, Plans, and RealitiesChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Environmental and Social Landscape: The Lau Islands, FijiChapter 4 Chapter 3. Foodways and Social Relations in the Past and PresentChapter 5 Chapter 4. Food Consumption Patterns and Refuse DisposalChapter 6 Chapter 5. Lauan FishingChapter 7 Chapter 6. Food in the Lau Islands and Its Implications for Ethnoarchaeology and ArchaeologyChapter 8 Appendix A: Archaeological MethodsChapter 9 Appendix B: Structured Ethnographic Interviews Conducted on Nayau, October and November 2003

Sharyn Jones is assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

This book is an engaging and informative piece of work. Jones accomplishes what many of us would like to do: live and work within a close-knit community to gain greater insight into traditional behaviors and then examine how this information can be extrapolated and compared to the archaeological record. This ethnoarchaeological approach to understanding Fijian lifeways, particularly as it relates to subsistence strategies, will be a useful resource for anthropologists and archaeologists alike—not just in the Pacific—but elsewhere in contexts where researchers are looking for novel ways to integrate human-environmental interactions across a diachronic spectrum.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. Fieldwork: Motivations, Plans, and RealitiesChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Environmental and Social Landscape: The Lau Islands, FijiChapter 4 Chapter 3. Foodways and Social Relations in the Past and PresentChapter 5 Chapter 4. Food Consumption Patterns and Refuse DisposalChapter 6 Chapter 5. Lauan FishingChapter 7 Chapter 6. Food in the Lau Islands and Its Implications for Ethnoarchaeology and ArchaeologyChapter 8 Appendix A: Archaeological MethodsChapter 9 Appendix B: Structured Ethnographic Interviews Conducted on Nayau, October and November 2003