American AnthropologistVolume 89, Issue 1 p. 134-136 Free Access John (Jack) Fischer (1923–1985) Mac Marshall, Mac Marshall University of IowaSearch for more papers by this authorMartha Ward, Martha Ward Department of Anthropology and Geography University of New OrleansSearch for more papers by this author Mac Marshall, Mac Marshall University of IowaSearch for more papers by this authorMartha Ward, Martha Ward Department of Anthropology and Geography University of New OrleansSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1987 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1987.89.1.02a00080AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. References Cited Fischer, John L. 1955 Language and Folktale in Truk and Ponape: A Study in Cultural Integration. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. Fischer, John L. 1956 The Position of Men and Women in Truk and Ponape: A Comparative Analysis of Kinship Terminology and Folktales. Journal of American Folklore 69: 55– 62. Fischer, John L. 1957 Totemism on Truk and Ponape. American Anthropologist 59: 250– 265. Fischer, John L. 1957 (with the assistance of Ann Fischer) The Eastern Carolines. New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files Press. Fischer, John L. 1958 The Classification of Residence in Censuses. American Anthropologist 60: 508– 517. Fischer, John L. 1959 Meter in Eastern Carolinian Oral Literature. Journal of American Folklore 72: 47– 52. Fischer, John L. 1961 Art Styles as Cultural Cognitive Maps. American Anthropologist 63: 79– 93. Fischer, John L. 1965 The Stylistic Significance of Consonantal sandhi in Trukese and Ponapean. American Anthropologist 67: 1495– 1502. Fischer, John L. 1966a A Ponapean Oedipus Tale: A Structural and Sociopsychological Analysis. Journal of American Folklore 79: 109– 129. Fischer, John L. 1966b Interrogatives in Ponapean: Some Semantic and Grammatical Aspects. In Report of the 17th Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies. Georgetown University Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics, No. 19. Francis P. Dineen, ed. Pp. 1– 17. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Fischer, John L. 1966c Syntax and Social Structure: Truk and Ponape. In Sociolinguistics. Proceedings of the UCLA Sociolinguistics Conference, 1964. William Bright, ed. Pp. 168– 187. The Hague: Mouton. Fischer, John L. 1968 Microethnology: Small-Scale Comparative Studies (with appendix consisting of Totemism in Truk and Ponape, 1957). In Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Essays in the Scope and Methods of the Science of Man. James A. Clifton, ed. Pp. 374– 401. New York: Houghton and Mifflin. Fischer, John L. 1969 Honorific Speech and Social Structure: A Comparison of Japanese and Ponapean. Journal of the Polynesian Society 78: 417– 422. Fischer, John L. 1977 (senior editor and translator, with S. H. Riesenberg and M. G. Whiting) The Book of Luelen: A Ponapean Manuscript History. 2 volumes. Pacific History Series. Canberra: Australian National University Press. Fischer, John L., and Simonne Fischer 1983 Furansu no kotowaza ni okeru hanashi kotoba no seikaku (‘The Nature of Speech According to French Proverbs’). In Girei to Shocho (‘Etiquette and Symbol’). Pp. 543– 566. K. Ebuchi et al. eds. Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press. Fischer, John L., and Marc J. Swartz 1960 Socio-Psychological Aspects of Some Trukese and Ponapean Love Songs. Journal of American Folklore 73: 218– 224. Halpern, Katherine Spencer 1973 Obituary for Ann Fischer. American Anthropologist 75: 292– 294. Volume89, Issue1March 1987Pages 134-136 ReferencesRelatedInformation