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From the Land of Nāfanua

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Author : Even Hovdhaugen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book From the Land of Nāfanua written by Even Hovdhaugen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a scholarly edition of some of the most important Samoan legends, this volume features seven oral texts recorded in Western Samoa between 1982 and 1983. Hovdhaugen provides a normalized transcription and a broad phonetic transcription for each legend, as well as a translation, introduction, and extensive notes. He also includes a vocabulary comprising all words found in the texts.

Nafanua

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Author : Paul Alan Cox
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780716735632
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Nafanua written by Paul Alan Cox and published by W H Freeman & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Cox describes his research and adventures in Samoa, work that led to him being hailed by TIME magazine as a hero of medicine and awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Working closely with the native healers, Cox studied traditional rainforest remedies and is credited with finding natural drugs that can be used in treating AIDS, discovering a rare species of flying fox, launching an international campaign to save a 30,000-acre rainforest and helping to rebuild a village destroyed by a hurricane. Cox's respect for the traditional villagers and his excitement and perseverance make Nafunua a story of scientific and personal discovery.

Bordered Bodies, Bothered Voices

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Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666707686
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Bordered Bodies, Bothered Voices written by Jione Havea and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologies are constructed in and from lived contexts, and contexts are shaped by borders. While borders are barriers, they are also steppingstones for crossing over and invitations for moving further. This book offers theological and cultural reflections from the intersections of borders (real and imagined), bodies (physical, cultural, religious, ideological, political), and voices (that endorse as well as talk back). With and in the interests of natives and migrants, the authors of this book embrace bordered bodies and stir bothered voices. The essays are divided into four overlapping clusters that express the shared drives between the authors--Noble borders: some borders are not experienced as constricting because they are seen as noble; Negotiating bodies: bodies constantly negotiate and relocate borders; Troubling voices: bothered voices cannot be muted or silenced; Riotous bodies: embracing the wisdom in and of rejected and wounded bodies is a riot that this book invites. The authors engage their subjects out of their experiences as migrants and natives. This book is thus a step toward--and an invitation for more work on--migrant and native theologies.

Whispers and Vanities

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Author : Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1775501833
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Whispers and Vanities written by Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven critique, from within and outside Samoa, of aspects of Samoa’s religious and cultural values.

Historical Dictionary of Polynesia

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Author : Robert D. Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810867729
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Polynesia written by Robert D. Craig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast. Thousands of islands are scattered throughout this area, most of which are currently included in one of the modern island states of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present. Appendixes of the major islands and atolls within Polynesia, the rulers and administrators of the 13 major island states, and basic demographic information of those states are also included.

Spirits in Culture, History and Mind

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Author : Jeannette Mageo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136758526
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Spirits in Culture, History and Mind written by Jeannette Mageo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits in Culture, History and Mind reintegrates spirits into comparative theories of religion, which have tended to focus on institutionalized forms of belief associated with gods. It brings an historical perspective to culturally patterned experiences with spirits, and examines spirits as a locus of tension between traditional and foreign values. Taking as a point of departure shifting local views of self, nine case studies drawn from Pacific societies analyze religious phenomena at the intersection of social, psychological and historical processes. The varied approaches taken in these case studies provide a richness of perspective, with each lens illuminating different aspects of spirit-related experience. All, however, bring a sense of historical process to bear on psychological and symbolic approaches to religion, shedding new light on the ways spirits relate to other cultural phenomena.

Su’esu’e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance

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Author : Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1775503585
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Su’esu’e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance written by Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi’s intellectual and cultural legacy to Samoa, providing Tui Atua’s writings and thoughts on Samoan indigenous knowledge. It was first compiled and published as a festschrift in commemoration of his seventieth birthday. Tui Atua is Samoa’s Head of State and is currently the only holder of one of Samoa’s four pāpā (aristocratic chiefly) titles – Tui Atua. The book also contains responses from fourteen of Samoa’s leading and emerging scholars (including two Rhodes Scholars), based within and outside Samoa. The book searches for the best of what His Highness terms ‘the Samoan indigenous reference’ and enlarges our contemporary understandings of indigenous knowledge.

Alchemies of Distance

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Author : Caroline Sinavaiana
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9781930068100
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Alchemies of Distance written by Caroline Sinavaiana and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Essay. Asian American Studies. "Sinavaiana-Gabbard draws her imaginative strength and mana from the fertile depths of her Samoan people's mythologies, past, and wisdom, as well as from the cultural soil of North American and Tibetan Buddhism. Her voice is a new blend of Samoan, American, and widely ranging poetic and philosophical languages. A unique, vibrant, undeniable voice which shapes the now fearlessly, with profound understanding and forgiveness"--Albert Wendt, University of Auckland. Published by Subpress/Tinfish/Institute of Pacific Studies.

Publications

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Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas

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Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819724
Total Pages : 1903 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

Cultural Memory

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Author : Jeannette Marie Mageo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824841875
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Memory written by Jeannette Marie Mageo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do foreign schemas and objects enter into indigenous ways of understanding the world? How are the cultural self and the cultural other constructed in acts of remembering? What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? In contemporary Pacific societies these questions are not merely the subject of scholarly debate but speak to pressing life concerns. This volume offers fruitful responses to such questions, providing insights into colonial memory and its limitations and proposing explanations that illumine cultural memory processes. These processes, in turn, elucidate ways of authoring cultural history and shed light on cultural identity, which, like other forms of identity, is built from a remembered self. Contributors explore valorizations of certain aspects of the remembered past, amnesias about other aspects. Both are part of the rhetoric of colonizing cultures and of cultural identity and nationhood in many contemporary Pacific societies. The provocative analyses and responses offered here are both academic and personal: close engagement with individuals and their ways of life is evident. These are at once intellectual journeys through the colonial landscapes of Pacific memory and attempts to understand the problems of politics and personhood, cultural identity and meaning, for real people in real places. Cultural Memory confronts many of the most central anthropological issues of our time.

Lagaga

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Author : Malama Meleisea
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820200296
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Lagaga written by Malama Meleisea and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history from writers from Western Samoa, examining thematically the influences of European settlers, the churches, German and NZ colonialism and the background to Western Samoa's independence. This short history is written for the general reader and for senior high school and university students seeking an overview of Samoan history. First published in 1987 and last reprinted in 2003. This is a reissue of the 2003 edition for 2018.

Folklore

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telesa

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Author : Lani Wendt Young
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781466253711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Telesa written by Lani Wendt Young and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Leila moves to Samoa, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns out to be. Embraced by a Covenant Sisterhood of earth's elemental guardians - what will Leila choose? Her fiery birthright as a telesa? Or will she choose the boy who offers her his heart? Daniel - stamped with the distinctive tattoo markings of a noble Pacific warrior and willing to risk everything for the chance to be with her. Can their love stand against the Covenant Keeper? A thriller-romance with a difference. If you enjoyed Twilight, then you will be enthralled by Telesa as it blends the richness of Pacific mythology into a contemporary young adult love story that will stay with you long after you have turned the final page.

The Greenwood Library of World Folktales [4 volumes]

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Author : Thomas A. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313081034
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Library of World Folktales [4 volumes] written by Thomas A. Green and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Amazon to the Arctic, the world is teeming with diverse cultures. There's no better way for students to explore the world's cultural diversity than through its folktales. Presenting tales from the foundations of the world's traditions, literature, daily life, and popular culture, The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections gathers together a vast array of folktales and arranges them according to region or cultural group, thus allowing students to quickly and conveniently learn about the tales of particular cultures. Some of these stories have been told for centuries, while others have emerged only in recent times. The four-volume set includes introductory essays in addition to explanatory headnotes, and provides bibliographies on particular regions as well as a selected, general bibliography. The most comprehensive work of its kind, this set gives students and general readers a guided tour of the world's folktales. Each volume of the set is devoted to a particular broad geographic region: Volume 1: Africa, The Middle East, Australia and Oceania Volume 2: Asia Volume 3: Europe Volume 4: North and South America Accessible, informative, and entertaining, this book will help literature students learn how to analyze texts and understand the traditions at the heart of many of the world's literary masterpieces. It will also help social studies students learn about the world's cultures and respect ethnic diversity.

Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania

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Author : Herman C. Kemp
Publisher : Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN 13 : 9789794614839
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania written by Herman C. Kemp and published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folklore

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Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.