Modern Samoa
Author | : Felix Maxwell Keesing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Samoan Islands |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Felix Maxwell Keesing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Samoan Islands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Malama Meleisea |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789820200319 |
"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.
Author | : Jeannette Marie Mageo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002-01-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780521004602 |
This book, first published in 2002, analyses the ways in which power is experienced by individuals as agents and objects.
Author | : Tracey Banivanua Mar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316683982 |
This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical peculiarities of colonialism in the region, and demonstrates the way imperial powers conceived of decolonisation as a new form of imperialism. She shows how Indigenous peoples responded to these limits by developing rich intellectual, political and cultural networks transcending colonial and national borders, with localised traditions of protest and dialogue connected to the global ferment of the twentieth century. The individual stories told here shed new light on the forces that shaped twentieth-century global history, and reconfigure the history of decolonisation, presenting it not as an historic event, but as a fragile, contingent and ongoing process continuing well into the postcolonial era.
Author | : Cluny Macpherson |
Publisher | : Auckland University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1775582140 |
Examining a variety of intriguing issues, this sociological study analyzes the impact global culture has had on the flora and fauna, people, economies, languages, and cultures of the Pacific for many centuries. The survey draws on findings from a 40-year research partnership, illustrating the effects of globalization from the perspective of a typical Samoan village and documenting the country's shift from baskets to buckets, from religious authority to a questioning democracy, and from in-kind work to a cash economy. Delving into questions such as When do Pacific emigrants stop sending money to their home village? Do villagers stop giving away fish when they get a refrigerator? and How do cell phones change villages? this argument contends that contemporary changes are presenting a more profound challenge to Samoan social institutions and society than at any other time in the past. Comprehensive and accessible, this guide is essential for those interested in the way global forces are shaping change in small Pacific nations.
Author | : R. Gerard Ward |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9789820201347 |
Author | : United States. Office of Education |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeannette Mageo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : 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.