Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
This collection about the Samoans consists of 15 documents and a culture summary, covering a wide variety of cultural and historical information from the1830s to the 1990s. The Samoans are Polynesian people who live on a group of small islands in the Central Pacific which constitute the territories of American Samoa and (since 1962) the independent state of Western Samoa. The earliest descriptions of Samoan culture and history were compiled by the missionaries John B. Stair and George Turner, who lived in different parts of the island from 1838-1945 and 1840-1880, respectively. Five documents are ethnographic accounts and essays by Margaret Mead who, in 1925-1928, lived among Samoans villagers mostly in the Manuan group of islands in American Samoa. One document revisits some of the major arguments advanced in Mead's works, notably her portrayal of adolescent Samoan girls as sexually permissive. The remaining seven documents in the collection further enrich the historical and cultural information on Samoa with additional themes and in-depth analysis including plant resources and indigenous botanical knowledge, traditional material culture, a socio-political analysis of the modern history of American and Western Samoa, post-war reconstruction of Western Samoa, material culture and social change, structures and processes in the Western Samoan Sala'ilua village, and recent changes in the economic options of households and individuals in Vaega and Neiafu villages in Western Samoa
Note:
Samoan material culture - by Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck) - 1930 -- - Modern Samoa: its government and changing life - by Felix M. Keesing ... - 1934 -- - Ethnobotany of the Samoans - William Albert Setchell - 1924 -- - Culture summary: Samoans - Thomas Bargatzky - 2009 -- - Social organization of Manua - Margaret Mead - 1930 -- - Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation - by Margaret Mead ... foreword by Franz Boas ... - 1928 -- - Western Samoa - W. E. H. Stanner - 1953 -- - The role of the individual in Samaon culture - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Samoan children at work and play - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Americanization in Samoa - Margaret Mead - 1929 --
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- Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before: together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific - George Turner - 1884 -- - Old Samoa: or flotsam and jetsam from the Pacific Ocean - by the Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introd. by the Bishop of Ballarat - 1897 -- - Sala'ilua: a Samoan mystery - Bradd Shore - 1982 -- - Samoan planters: tradition and economic development in Polynesia - J. Tim O'Meara - 1990 -- - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan village - Lowell D. Holmes - 1958 -- - The history of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy - Paul Shankman - 1996
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Samoaner
Author information:
Bargatzky, Thomas 1946-
Author information:
Buck, Peter Henry 1877-1951
Author information:
Mead, Margaret 1901-1978
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