A Talent for Friendship Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait

John Edward Terrell, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard) has long been recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the peopling of the Oceania and the remarkable biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity of modern Pacific Islanders. He is also a pioneer in the study of global human biogeography, baseline probability analysis, and the application of social network analysis in archaeology and anthropology. Since 1971 he has been the curator of Oceanic archaeology and ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago where he now holds the endowed Regenstein Curatorship of Pacific Anthropology established there in 2005. A strong voice for recognizing museums today as key players in global heritage management, he is currently working closely with Chicago's large Filipino-American community to foster the co-curation with them of Field Museum's outstanding early 20th century Philippines cultural collections.

The author of more than 180 books, scientific papers, reports, and reviews, his book Prehistory in the Pacific Islands (Cambridge, 1986, paper 1988) is considered by many to be a classic study of human diversity in all its complexity. He has been called one of the best writers in anthropology today, someone with a keen and well-demonstrated commitment to writing that can be read for pleasure as well as content. He also has the distinction of being the resident kaitiaki (guardian) of the only 19th century Maori meeting house in the New World, Ruatepupuke II, now at the Field Museum but originally from Tokomaru Bay, Aotearoa (New Zealand) where it was first opened with great pomp and circumstance in 1881.

Contents:

Part I. What Makes Us Human?
1. Being human
2. Baron von Pufendorf
3. Ghost theories
4. The secret lives of Lou, Laurence, and Leslie

Part II. The Archaeology of Friendship
5. Suddenly all was chaos
6. A wimpy idea
7. In the footsteps of A. B. Lewis
8. Confronting the obvious
9. The archaeology of friendship
10. The sign of the sea turtle
11. Drawing conclusions

Part III. Selfish Desires
12. Houston, we've had a problem
13. You can't get there from here
14. The wizard of Down House
15. The numbers game

Part IV. The Social Baseline
16. Animal cooperation
17. The question of animal awareness
18. Babies and big brains
19. Mission impossible

Part V. Social Being
20. Alone in a crowd
21. A state of mind
22. It's who you know
23. Bloodlust, fear, and other emotions

Part VI. Principles To Live By
24. The lady or the tiger?
25. A kiss is just a kiss?
26. Friend or Facebook?
27. What was the Garden of Eden like?
28. The strength of weak ties
29. Meet me on the marae
30. Being in a family way

Appendix
Index