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Book Synopsis The Samoans by : Frederic Koehler Sutter
Download or read book The Samoans written by Frederic Koehler Sutter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ua fuifui faatasi, ae vaoeseese "Gathered into one flock from different parts of the forest" The beauty of this Samoan proverb poetically describes The Samoans: A Global Family. From the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the deserts of the Sudan, from the Himalayas of Bhutan to the jungles of Brazil, and from the People's Republic of China to Papua New Guinea, a family is gathered in 285 color photographs captioned with the proverbs of 30 languages. Each person recounts his or her autobiography: a cardinal in Rome, a cowboy in the outback of Australia, a champion sumo wrestler in Japan, a jet pilot in nothern Alaska, an NFL football player at the Super Bowl, a nun in the slums of Lima, Peru. Each brings a story from his part of the "forest." The book is the result of a two-and-a-half-year odyssey around the world, through 45 countries and 20 states and into the lives of over 125 Samoans documenting what it means to be Samoan not only in Samoa but in the farthest reaches of the globe.
Book Synopsis Coming of Age in Samoa by : Margaret Mead
Download or read book Coming of Age in Samoa written by Margaret Mead and published by Digireads.com. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1928, "Coming of Age in Samoa" is Margaret Mead's classic sociological examination of adolescence during the first part of the 20th century in American Samoa. Sent by the Social Science Research Council to study the youths of a so-called "primitive" culture, Margaret Mead would spend nine months attempting to ascertain if the problems of adolescences in western society were merely a function of youth or a result of cultural and social differences. "Coming of Age in Samoa" is her report of those findings, in which the author details various aspects of Samoan life including, education, social and household structure, and sexuality. The book drew great public interest when it was first published and also criticism from those who did not like the perceived message that the carefree sexuality of Samoan girls might be the reason for their lack of neuroses. "Coming of Age in Samoa" has also been criticized for the veracity of Mead's account, though current public opinion seems to fall on the side of her work being largely a factual one, if not one of great anthropological rigor. At the very least "Coming of Age in Samoa" remains an interesting historical account of tribal Samoan life during the first part of the 20th century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Book Synopsis First Contacts in Polynesia - the Samoan Case (1722-1848) by : Serge Tcherkezoff
Download or read book First Contacts in Polynesia - the Samoan Case (1722-1848) written by Serge Tcherkezoff and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called 'Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate' about the fate of Captain Cook, 'First Contacts' in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in 'cloth' and presenting 'young girls' for 'sexual contact'. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call 'Papalagi'. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted 'Mead-Freeman debate' which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in 'Samoan culture'. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Laperouse's and Dumont d'Urville's narratives.
Book Synopsis The Samoa Islands: Material Culture by : Augustin Krämer
Download or read book The Samoa Islands: Material Culture written by Augustin Krämer and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II includes chapters on anthropology and sociology, medicine, plants and cooking, fishery, men's work, ornamentation and dress, recreation and war, and flora and fauna.
Book Synopsis Margaret Mead and Samoa by : Derek Freeman
Download or read book Margaret Mead and Samoa written by Derek Freeman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.
Book Synopsis Western Samoa by : New Zealand. Royal Commission on Western Samoa
Download or read book Western Samoa written by New Zealand. Royal Commission on Western Samoa and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Making of Modern Samoa by : Malama Meleisea
Download or read book The Making of Modern Samoa written by Malama Meleisea and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since independence in January 1962, several constitutional court cases have exposed the dilemma which the Western Samoa Government is facing balancing fa'a Samoa (Samoan customs and traditions) with Western legal systems of authority. This book traces the clash between Samoan and Western notions of government and law from the 1830s to the 1980s emphasizing the hitherto neglected interpretation of events from a Samoan perspective. As a critical reinterpretation of the literature on Western Samoa, drawing on oral sources and material from the archives of the Land and Titles Court of Western Samoa, the book provides important new insights into pre-colonial regimes, racial issues and the contemporary political problems of the independent state of Western Samoa."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Coconut Colonialism by : Holger Droessler
Download or read book Coconut Colonialism written by Holger Droessler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of globalization and empire at the crossroads of the Pacific. Located halfway between HawaiÔi and Australia, the islands of Samoa have long been a center of Oceanian cultural and economic exchange. Accustomed to exercising agency in trade and diplomacy, Samoans found themselves enmeshed in a new form of globalization after missionaries and traders arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century. As the great powers of Europe and America competed to bring Samoa into their orbits, Germany and the United States eventually agreed to divide the islands for their burgeoning colonial holdings. In Coconut Colonialism, Holger Droessler examines the Samoan response through the lives of its workers. Ordinary SamoansÑsome on large plantations, others on their own small holdingsÑpicked and processed coconuts and cocoa, tapped rubber trees, and built roads and ports that brought cash crops to Europe and North America. At the same time, Samoans redefined their own way of being in the worldÑwhat Droessler terms ÒOceanian globalityÓÑto challenge German and American visions of a global economy that in fact served only the needs of Western capitalism. Through cooperative farming, Samoans contested the exploitative wage-labor system introduced by colonial powers. The islanders also participated in ethnographic shows around the world, turning them into diplomatic missions and making friends with fellow colonized peoples. Samoans thereby found ways to press their own agendas and regain a degree of independence. Based on research in multiple languages and countries, Coconut Colonialism offers new insights into the global history of labor and empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Progress and Developments of the Churches in the Samoan Islands: Early 21St Century by : Fuimaono Fini Aitaoto
Download or read book Progress and Developments of the Churches in the Samoan Islands: Early 21St Century written by Fuimaono Fini Aitaoto and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re interested in Church-related events on the American Samoan islands during the early twenty-first century, then you need this book. Following up on his first book on the history of the Assemblies of God Church in American Samoa, author Fuimaono Fini Aitaoto delves deeper into church life on these South Pacific islands. Geared for Bible college students, pastors, and researchers, he answers questions such as: • What role has Christianity played in the lives of most Samoans? • What notable changes have recently occurred within American Samoa’s churches? • What is the financial condition of various churches? • What role does politics play in church life? While there is ample literature on the history and developments of churches in American Samoa and the Pacific from the late 1800s to the 1980s, there are not nearly as many resources updating the world on new church developments. This book fills that void.
Book Synopsis Polynesian Missions in Melanesia by : Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe
Download or read book Polynesian Missions in Melanesia written by Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1982 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proverbs, Phrases, and Similes of the Samoans by : Penisimani
Download or read book Proverbs, Phrases, and Similes of the Samoans written by Penisimani and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the meaning and application of sayings rich in rhetoric, culture and Samoan history. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, developing reading skills, and gaining cultural insights.
Book Synopsis Mandated Territory of Western Samoa by : New Zealand. Administrator of Western Samoa
Download or read book Mandated Territory of Western Samoa written by New Zealand. Administrator of Western Samoa and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :116 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis American Samoa by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions
Download or read book American Samoa written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samoan Medical Belief and Practice by : Cluny Macpherson
Download or read book Samoan Medical Belief and Practice written by Cluny Macpherson and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first comprehensive study of Samoan music. Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofố, in Western Samoa to produce a fascinating and throughful study. They explain convincingly why traditional Samoan medicine and its skilled practitioners continue to flourish alongside Western medical practice both in Samoa and in Samoan immigrant communities..."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Palolo, a Sea-worm Eaten by the Samoans by : John Bettridge Stair
Download or read book Palolo, a Sea-worm Eaten by the Samoans written by John Bettridge Stair and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Publisher :Soffer Publishing ISBN 13 : Total Pages :84 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives by : New Zealand. Parliament
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
