Author :
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"In Samoan folklore a fagogo is a story told mostly at night, privately, inside individual homes. It transports the audience into the folklore world of heroes and heroines, of supernatural forces acting for good or evil, but is set against a background of typical local society, making it immediately comprehensible to Samoans of all ages. The stories contain songs sung by the narrators."--Publisher's blurb.
Author : Sean Mallon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824826758
"Samoan Art and Artists is a wide-ranging survey of both the traditional and contemporary arts of Samoa. The author has drawn on an extensive research base to present a contemporary and accessible picture of a vibrant culture. The book has a broad sweep, covering all facets of the Samoan arts, including canoe and house building, siapo (tapa) weaving, tattooing, oratory, adornment, all forms of performance art, the visual arts, and literature. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles of living practitioners, both from Samoa and the large Samoan communities in other Pacific countries."--Publisher description.
Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1978703643
In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience keep them going. The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation theologies, they tell their stories in the hope that they will expose cultures that make individuals and communities vulnerable, and that those stories will encourage vulnerable subjects to be resilient and bring change to theological institutions that conserve vulnerability. Because of the location of the contributors—the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Caribbean, and Oceania—this book is a testimony that vulnerability is present all over the world, and that resilience is a liberating alternative.
Author : Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1775501833
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.
Author : Susan Y. Najita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134211724
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and deploy this violent history in their work. As Pacific peoples negotiate their paths towards sovereignty and chart their postcolonial futures, these writers play an invaluable role in invoking and commenting upon the various uses of the histories of colonial resistance, allowing themselves and their readers to imagine new futures by exorcising the past. Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific is a valuable addition to the fields of Pacific and Postcolonial Studies and also contributes to struggles for cultural decolonization in Oceania: contemporary writers’ critical engagement with colonialism and indigenous culture, Najita argues, provides a powerful tool for navigating a decolonized future.
Author : Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Samoa
ISBN : 9789820201378
This is the story of Samoan women written in their own words. Sometimes sad, often exhilarating and always interesting, this is a fascinating insight into an ancient culture viewed from the perspective of women. In an often male dominated society the book tells us much that we may have already suspected. ... that even in overtly male societies women are powerful.
Author : Arthur W. Walker-Jones
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1628375922
Ask the animals, and they will tell you. Birds, beasts, and creeping things swarm throughout the Bible’s pages. Despite their prevalence, most biblical scholars have viewed them merely as metaphors, passive objects, or background embellishment to the human experience. This collection seeks to move beyond this traditional view of biblical animals by engaging the growing interdisciplinary field of animal studies. Contributors Peter Joshua Atkins, Jared Beverly, William P. Brown, Margaret Cohen, Jacob R. Evers, Michael J. Gilmour, William “Chip” Gruen, Dong Hyeon Jeong, Brian Fiu Kolia, Anne Létourneau, Robert R. MacKay, Suzanna R. Millar, Timothy J. Sandoval, Robert Paul Seesengood, Ken Stone, Brian James Tipton, Arthur W. Walker-Jones, and Jaime L. Waters showcase the breadth and depth of inquiry that animal studies can foster in biblical studies as well as what animal studies can gain from a more rigorous engagement with biblical texts. Together the essays offer an animal hermeneutic that supports the flourishing of all creatures.
Author : Richard M. Moyle
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN :
This companion volume to Moyle's acclaimed 1987 book Tongan Music provides the most comprehensive published account of the music of western Polynesia's largest island group. Combining extensive fieldwork and exhaustive coverage of historical sources and museum holdings, the book features a thorough examination of songs, song texts and translations, dances, children's songs, and musical instruments.
Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0824894510
I lana tusi ʻua taʻua ʻo le Pōuliuli, tātou te fetaui ai ma le toeaʻina e ʻautū i ai le tala a le atamai o aliʻi, le susuga i le aliʻi tusitala ʻo Maualaʻivao Albert Wendt, ʻo Faleasa Osovae. E fitusefulu ma le ono lona matua, ma ʻo le aliʻi sili i le afioʻaga o Malaelua. ʻUa maleifua ʻo ia i se tasi taeao ma lona ʻinoʻino ʻua matuā mātuiā tele ʻi mea ma tagata ʻuma e pito ʻi sili ona pele ʻiā te ia, ʻaemaise le faʻateʻia ʻo ia lava ina ʻua ia iloa lona sao i lenei faʻalavelave. E puna le vai o le tōfā loloto ma le mamana o le utaga i le Pōuliuli, ʻona ʻo suʻesuʻga a le aliʻi tusitala e faʻamatala ai le māfuaʻaga o le faʻalēaogāina o le māfaufau o le saʻo matua o se nuʻu. ʻO le Pōuliuli ʻo se tusi e faʻaali ai māfaufauga loloto o le tusitala i pūlega faʻakolone i se sosaiete i fetāulaʻiga ala o tū ma aga faʻaonapō nei, ʻoloʻo tūmau pea le mālosi i aso nei e pei ʻo le taimi muamua na lōmia ai i tausaga ʻua mavae. ʻO le uluaʻi faʻaliliuga lenei o le Pōuliuli i le Gagana Sāmoa e le tamaʻitaʻi tusitala ʻo Sia Figiel (ma lana ʻaufaʻatonu āloaʻia o le Gagana Sāmoa: ʻo Niusila Faʻamanatu-ʻEteuati, Alvina Lutu, L.V. Letalu, ma Manumaua Luafata Simanu-Klutz). ʻOleʻā ʻavea lea ma se taimi muamua e momoli ai manatu ma māfaufauga o Maualaʻivao i la tātou gagana, ʻina ʻia faʻaopoopo i le tuputupu aʻe o tusitusiga ʻoloʻo ʻua ʻuma ona faʻaliliu mai i isi gagana, i le Gagana Sāmoa. Pouliuli, Albert Wendt's novel that explores the intricacies of the human condition and the complexity of Samoan society, is translated by Sia Figiel into the Samoan language for the first time.
Author : ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0824897293
An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships between peoples, environments, deities, nonhuman relatives, history, dreams, and storytelling. Wonder is activated by curiosity, humility in the face of mystery, and engagement with possibilities. We see wonder and the fantastic as general modes of expression that are not confined to realism. As such, the fantastic encompasses fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, fabulation, horror, fairy tale, utopia, dystopia, and speculative fiction. We include Black, feminist, and queer futurisms, Indigenous wonderworks, Hawaiian moʻolelo kamahaʻo and moʻolelo āiwaiwa, Sāmoan fāgogo, and other non-mimetic genres from specific cultures, because we recognize that their refusal to adopt restrictive Euro-American definitions of reality is what inspires and enables the fantastic to flourish. As artistic, intellectual, and culturally based expressions that encode and embody Indigenous knowledge, the multimodal moʻolelo in this collection upend monolithic, often exoticizing, and demeaning stereotypes of the Pacific and situate themselves in conversation with critical understandings of the global fantastic, Indigenous futurities, social justice, and decolonial and activist storytelling. In this collection, Oceanic ideas and images surround and connect to Hawaiʻi, which is for the three coeditors, a piko (center); at the same time, navigating both juxtaposition and association, the collection seeks to articulate pilina (relationships) across genres, locations, time, and media and to celebrate the multiplicity and relationality of the fantastic in Oceania.
