Author: Derek Freeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781740762168
Category : Kinship
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Author: Michael P. Vischer
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536470
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers that comprise this volume examine the concept of precedence as a form of local discourse and as a mechanism for ordering status, at different levels, within specific Austronesian-speaking societies. This is the first volume of its kind to focus entirely on precedence and to provide an explication of its social uses and the way in which it is contested. Each paper is ethnographically-focused and offers its own distinctive approach to the examination of precedence. The papers, however, relate closely to one another and are thus able to proffer a variety of comparative reflections.

Author: Lowell Don Holmes
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Craig Robert Janes
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804717892
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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A Stanford University Press classic.

Author: Leulu Felise Vaʻa
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820203259
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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An exploration of the practice of fa'a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of traditionn within their communities and of the search for opportunities in new environments.

Author: Susan Hirsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Samoan Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Robert D. Craig
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810867729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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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: David C. Pitt
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Social research monograph on the role of traditional culture in the social integration of western samoan immigrants in New Zealand - examines motivations for migration, social structure based on clan and family, religion and social status, employment problems, and describes the educational system and aspects concerning the social adjustment of samoans living in urban areas. Bibliography pp. 140 and 141, photographs and statistical tables.

Author: Margaret Mead
Publisher: Digireads.com
ISBN: 9781420982008
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First published in 1928, "Coming of Age in Samoa" is Margaret Mead's classic sociological examination of adolescence during the first part of the 20th century in American Samoa. Sent by the Social Science Research Council to study the youths of a so-called "primitive" culture, Margaret Mead would spend nine months attempting to ascertain if the problems of adolescences in western society were merely a function of youth or a result of cultural and social differences. "Coming of Age in Samoa" is her report of those findings, in which the author details various aspects of Samoan life including, education, social and household structure, and sexuality. The book drew great public interest when it was first published and also criticism from those who did not like the perceived message that the carefree sexuality of Samoan girls might be the reason for their lack of neuroses. "Coming of Age in Samoa" has also been criticized for the veracity of Mead's account, though current public opinion seems to fall on the side of her work being largely a factual one, if not one of great anthropological rigor. At the very least "Coming of Age in Samoa" remains an interesting historical account of tribal Samoan life during the first part of the 20th century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author: George N. Appell
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887066061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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This book explores choice behavior as constrained by culture, biology, and psychoanalytic processes in a variety of ethnographic contexts in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa--the arena in which the controversy between Derek Freeman and anthropologist Margaret Mead's ideas of culture first developed. It also examines the interface between a nomothetic anthropology and a hermeneutic, idiographic anthropology, raising the critical question as to how ethnographic "knowledge" of another culture is achieved and transmitted to others. Freeman rejects an exclusive reliance on either culture or biology as key to explaining human behavior, proposing instead an interactionist paradigm. Fundamental to this paradigm is choice behavior, which is intrinsic to our biology and basic to the formation of culture: for cultures are the accumulation of socially sanctioned past choices. However, the greater the freedom to choose, the greater the scope for good or bad, and the greater the need for ethics, rules, and laws for defining prohibited alternatives. Choice and Morality investigates these themes. Its authors examine the emergent nature of social reality as a result of choice behavior and illustrate the complexity of Freeman's theoretical position.