Old Samoa
Author | : John Bettridge Stair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Bettridge Stair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2024-01-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9361424599 |
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a nonfiction book titled "A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa," which was released in 1892. The political unrest and battles that took place in Samoa in the late 1800s are described in great depth in the book. During this time, a group of islands in the South Pacific called Samoa became the center of geopolitical disputes between Western countries, especially the US, Germany, and the UK. Living in Samoa at the time, Stevenson saw firsthand the intricate relationships that arose between the local Samoan people and the foreign forces competing for dominance of the islands. The book examines a number of facets of Samoan politics, society, and culture while highlighting the effects of imperialism and colonialism as well as the independence movement. Stevenson chronicles the abuses meted out to the Samoan people, in addition to opposing group disputes and foreign government intrusions. In addition to providing historical context, "A Footnote to History" critiques Western imperialism and its effects. Stevenson's firsthand observations and comments offer important background information for comprehending the dynamics of colonialism in the Pacific region as well as the complexity of Samoan history.
Author | : Jeannette Marie Mageo |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472085187 |
Anthropologist Jeannette Marie Mageo develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa--which provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, and uncovers ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives. Photos.
Author | : Augustin Krämer |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824822194 |
Augustin Kramer's account of his sojourn in the Samoa Islands from 1897 to 1899. Of particular importance to Samoans are the original documents containing ceremonial greetings and genealogical pedigrees. All Samoan language texts have been retained in this edition.
Author | : New Zealand. Royal Commission on Western Samoa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Mandates |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Augustin Krämer |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824816346 |
Volume II includes chapters on anthropology and sociology, medicine, plants and cooking, fishery, men's work, ornamentation and dress, recreation and war, and flora and fauna.
Author | : Felix Maxwell Keesing |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Acculturation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benjamin Sacks |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030272680 |
This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest between and within the categories of ‘colonisers’ and ‘colonised.’ How and why did Samoans adapt and appropriate the imperial game? How did officials, missionaries, colonists, soldiers and those with mixed foreign and Samoan heritage understand and respond to the real and symbolic challenges kirikiti presented? And how did Samoans use both games to navigate foreign colonialism(s)? By investigating these questions, Benjamin Sacks suggests alternative frameworks for conceptualising sporting transfer and adoption, and advances understandings of how power, politics and identity were manifested through sport, in Samoa and across the globe.
Author | : Serge Tcherkezoff |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1921536020 |
This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called 'Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate' about the fate of Captain Cook, 'First Contacts' in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in 'cloth' and presenting 'young girls' for 'sexual contact'. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call 'Papalagi'. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted 'Mead-Freeman debate' which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in 'Samoan culture'. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Laperouse's and Dumont d'Urville's narratives.
Author | : Western Samoa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Samoa |
ISBN | : |