Author : Even Hovdhaugen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
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.
Author : Paul Alan Cox
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780716735632
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.
Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666707686
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.
Author : Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 30,98 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 : Robert D. Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0810867729
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.
Author : Jeannette Mageo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136758526
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.
Author : Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1775503585
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.
Author : Caroline Sinavaiana
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781930068100
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.
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Malama Meleisea
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9789820200296
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.
