Editors' Preface Introduction by Iwao USHIJIMA and Ken-ichi SUDO

CHAPTER I. CULTURAL HISTORY OF MICRONESIA
　The Breadfruit Culture Complex in Oceania
　……………… EIKICHI ISHIKAWA
　The Significance of Lure Shanks Excavated in the Utiroa Site of Makin Island in the Cilberts
　……………… JUN TAKAYAMA, HIROAKI TAKASUGI
　East-West Cultural Exchanges in the Western Carolines
　……………… OSAMU SAKIYAMA
　Aspectual Systems of Trukese and Ponapean
　……………… HIROSHI SUGITA

CHAPTER II. STRUCTURAL FLEXIBILITY IN MATRILINEAL SOCIETIES
　Nuturaung in Matrilineal Society: A Case Study of Satawal Island
　……………… KEN-ICHI SUDO
　Females Bear Men, Land and Eterekes: Paternal Nuture and Symbolic Female Roles on Truk
　……………… TOSHIMITSU KAWAI

CHAPTER III. SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF CHIEFTAINSHIP
　Feasting ad a Socio-Political Process of Cheiftainship on Ponape, Eastern Carolines
　……………… AKITOSHI SHIMIZU
　Political Structure and Formation of Communication Channels on Yap Island: A Case Study of the Fanif District
　……………… IWAO USHIJIMA
　The Territorial Organization of Faleata: A Case Study of the Title System in Samoan Society
　……………… MATORI YAMAMOTO

CHAPTER IV. FOLK KNOWLEDGE ON CORAL ISLANDS
　Song and Cosmology on Satawal
　……………… SHUZO ISHIMORI
　Classification and Contexts: Food Categories on Satawalese Culture
　……………… TOYAMA AKIMICHI
　Construction Techniques and Traditional Architectural Knowledge on Elato Atoll, Caroline Islunds
　……………… SHIGENOBU SUGITO
　“Woman” as an Image of Fear: A Comparison of ‘Vagina Dentata’ and ‘Female Folktales’
　……………… KAZUHIKO KOMATSU

CHAPTER V. CHRISTIANITY: PROBLEMS OF ACCULTURATION
　Gods of the Modekngi Religion in Belau
　……………… MACHIKO AOYAGI
　The Reception of Christianity on Ponape
　……………… KAZUYOSHI NAKAYAMA

CHAPTER VI. MICRONESIAN STUDIES IN JAPAN
　Micronesian Ethnological Studies in Japan, 1884-1986
　……………… EIKICHI ISHIKAWA, IWAO USHIJIMA

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