| Included Work | Bargatzky, Thomas. Culture summary, Samoa. |
| Included Work | Buck, Peter Henry, 1877?-1951. Samoan material culture. |
| Included Work | Holmes, Lowell D. (Lowell Don), 1925-2010 Ta'u. |
| Included Work | Keesing, Felix Maxwell, 1902-1961 Modern Samoa. |
| Included Work | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 Social organization of Manua. |
| Included Work | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 Coming of age in Samoa. |
| Included Work | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. |
| Included Work | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 Role of the individual in Samaon culture. |
| Included Work | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 Samoan children at work and play. |
| Included Work | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 Americanization in Samoa. |
| Included Work | O'Meara, J. Tim. Samoan planters. |
| Included Work | Setchell, William Albert, 1864-1943. Ethnobotany of the Samoans. |
| Included Work | Shankman, Paul History of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy. |
| Included Work | Shore, Bradd, 1945- Sala'ilua. |
| Included Work | Stair, John B. (John Bettridge) Old Samoa. |
| Included Work | Stanner, W. E. H., 1905-1981 Western Samoa. |
| Included Work | Turner, George, 1817 or 1818-1891. Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Oceania. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Culture summary, Samoa / Thomas Bargatzky -- Samoan material culture / Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck) -- Ta'u / Lowell D. Holmes -- Modern Samoa / Felix M. Keesing -- Social organization of Manua ; Role of the individual in Samaon culture ; Samoan children at work and play ; Americanization in Samoa / Margaret Mead -- Coming of age in Samoa / Margaret Mead, foreword by Franz Boas -- Samoan planters / J. Tim O'Meara -- Ethnobotany of the Samoans / William Albert Setchell -- History of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy / Paul Shankman -- Sala'ilua / Bradd Shore -- Old Samoa / Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introduction by the Bishop of Ballarat -- Western Samoa / W. E. H. Stanner -- Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before / George Turner. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Apr. 12, 2010). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2009 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Samoa. |
