War stories /Lamont Lindstrom, Geoffrey M. White -- Histories of contact, narratives of self: wartime encounters in Santa Isabel / Geoffrey M. White -- The source of the force in Marshallese cosmology / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Echoes of massacre: recollections of World War II on Sapwuahfik (Ngatik Atoll) / Lin Poyer -- Time of famine, time of transformation: hell in the Pacific, Palau / Karen L. Nero -- "Far away" and "close up": World War II and Sikaiana perceptions of their place in the world / William W. Donner -- The Kilenge and the war: an observer effect on stories from the past / Marty Zelenietz, Hisafumi Saito -- Shadows of war: changing remembrance through twenty years in New Britain / David Counts -- Soldiers and spirits: the impact of World War II on a Coral Sea island / Maria Lepowsky.