Author: William Brown ChurchwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Samoa
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Elite Communication in Samoa
Author: Felix Maxwell KeesingPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Consular Reports
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Das Staatsarchiv
Author: Literary Culture and the Pacific
Author: Vanessa SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521573597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.
American Samoa
Author: American Samoa. Naval governor, 1910-1913 (William M. Crose)Publisher:
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Category : American Samoa
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
House documents
Author: Samoan Art and Artists
Author: Sean MallonPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824826758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"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.
Report Upon Samoa, Or the Navigator's Islands
Author: Albert Barnes SteinbergerPublisher:
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Category : Samoan Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Statesman's Year Book
Author: The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027045X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.