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Khalifa Alrajeh, Ola AlAzzeh, Youssef Roman · Pharmacogenomics · 2023 · Journal article
Kai Tätte, Ene Metspalu, Helen Post, Leire Palencia-Madrid, Javier Rodríguez Luis, Maere Reidla, Erika Tamm, Anne-Mai Ilumäe, Marian M. de Pancorbo, Ralph Garcia-Bertrand, Mait Metspalu, Rene J. Herrera · Scientific Reports · 2022 · Journal article
Our exploration of the genetic constitution of Nuku Hiva (n = 51), Hiva Oa (n = 28) and Tahuata (n = 8) of the Marquesas Archipelago based on the analyses of genome-wide autosomal markers as well as high-resolution genotyping of paternal and maternal lineages provides us with...
, Salainaoloa Lisa-Maree Wilson · Victoria University of Wellington Library · 2021 · Dissertation
While globally languages are evolving and changing, language shift has been most prevalent in migrant communities, particularly those with larger numbers living outside of the homelands, such as the Samoan community in New Zealand. This research explored the perceptions of a...
Matt Tomlinson · University of Hawaii Press · 2020 · Book
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of “contextual theologians,” exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands...
Sean Mallon, Sébastien Galliot · 2018 · Book
A BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED AND RICHLY ILLUSTRATED RETELLING OF THE UNIQUE AND POWERFUL HISTORY OF SAMOAN TATTOOING, FROM 3000 YEARS AGO TO MODERN PRACTICES. The Samoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the full...
Chief Pulefanolefolasa F. Galea'i, Donna Manz · Xlibris US · 2015 · Book
The book expresses the history of the Samoan fire knife dance (Samoan Ailao), from the time it was a victory ceremony of war to its modern day form. The explanation of the weapon nifooti (the deadly tooth or cutting tooth) is defined. The book elaborates the various stages of...
Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel Vitolia Moa · Huia Pub. · 2014 · Book
"Published with the assistance of the Gaualofa Trust"--Title page verso.
Sean Mallon, Kolokesa Mahina-Tuai, Damon Ieremia Salesa · Te Papa Press · 2012 · Book
Aotearoa New Zealand has been shaped by a long and dynamic history with the other islands of the Pacific, their people and their cultures. Today, it is home to the largest population of Pacific Islanders anywhere in the world. The first of its kind, this illustrated history...
John R. Haglelgam · The Contemporary Pacific · 2011 · Journal article
Penehuro Fatu Lefale · Climatic Change · 2009 · Journal article
This paper examines traditional ecological knowledge of weather and climate in Samoa, a Polynesian community in the South Pacific. The research found Samoans have their own unique seasonal calendar. The Samoan seasonal calendar is predominantly based on the observations of local...
Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin · University of Hawaii Press · 2009 · Book
Gagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use, it features a methodical approach suitable for all ages; an emphasis on patterns of speech and communication through practice and examples; 10 practical dialogues covering everyday...
Manfred Kayser, Silke Brauer, Richard Cordaux, Amanda Casto, Oscar Lao, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Robb B. Rutledge, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, David Gil, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, Peter J. Oefner, Ronald J. Trent, Mark Stoneking · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2006 · Journal article
Sean Mallon · University of Hawaii Press · 2002 · Book
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...
Margaret Mead · Harper Collins · 2001 · Book
Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not...
Unasa, Leulu Felise Vaʻa · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 2001 · Book
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.
Mano'o ʻAuimatagi Fa'asalaia'i Le'uo Avataeao Kato ʻUlu Kini · 2000 · Book
Sia Figiel · Kaya/Muae · 1999 · Book
Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, and the restrictions of life in her Samoan village.
Vilsoni Hereniko, Rob Wilson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers · 1999 · Book
In a time of dynamism and contradiction in Pacific cultural production, a time of 'turning things over' and 'writing from the inside out,' this far-reaching volume provides a comprehensive set of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the New Pacific. With its...
Rosalind P. Murray-McIntosh, Brian J. Scrimshaw, Peter J. Hatfield, David Penny · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · Journal article
<jats:p>The hypervariable 1 region of human mtDNA shows markedly reduced variability in Polynesians, and this variability decreases from western to eastern Polynesia. Fifty-four sequences from New Zealand Maori show that the mitochondrial variability with just four haplotypes is...
Albert Wendt · University of Hawaii Press · 1994 · Book
An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of...
Ulrike Mosel, Even Hovdhaugen · Oxford University Press, USA · 1992 · Book
Samoan Reference Grammar is the first extensive grammar of Samoan, by number of speakers the largest Polynesian language. The grammar is divided into eighteen chapters which cover phonetics, phonology, and orthography, word classification and morphology, the syntax of various...
Michael Field · 1991 · Book
"On 29 August 1914 New Zealand troops landed in German Samoa and established a colonial rule that was to last almost 50 years. The new administrators were an odd assortment of benevolent misfits. Their unchecked power led to widespread racism and the distortion of justice,...
Auimatagi S. Kaslano (compiler) · 1991 · Book
This manual is designed for the language training of Peace Corps volunteers serving in Samoa, and focuses on daily communication skills needed in that context. It consists of 48 lessons, which include targeted competencies, phrase and vocabulary lists, cultural and usage notes,...
Auimatagi S. Kaslano (compiler) · Peace Corps (Western Samoa) · 1991 · Book
This manual is designed for the language training of Peace Corps volunteers serving in Samoa, and focuses on daily communication skills needed in that context. It consists of 48 lessons, which include targeted competencies, phrase and vocabulary lists, cultural and usage notes,...
C. Stuebel, C. Steubel, Brother Herman · 1987 · Book
Stories in Samoan and English providing an insight to the Samoan way of life in pre-papalagi times, and a valuable record of a culture rich in history and spirituality.
Malama Meleisea · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 1987 · Book
"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...
Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 1987 · Book
A history from writers from Western Samoa, examining thematically the influences of European settlers, the churches, German and NZ colonialism and the background to Western Samoa's independence. This short history is written for the general reader and for senior high school and...
Derek Freeman · Penguin Group USA · 1985 · Book
In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture...
Bradd Shore · Columbia University Press · 1982 · Journal article
Presents an ethnography of Samoa cast as a mystery story. Studies a murder and the sequence of events surrounding it as the center while looking at the culture as a whole.
Joseph C. Finney · The University of Auckland (for the Polynesian Society) · 1973 · Journal article
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 · 1895 · Book
[i]-viii, 1 \U+fffd\., 1-322 p., 6 \U+fffd\. 20 cm
Congress of Women (1894 : Chicago, Ill.), World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) · 1894 · Book
824 p. : 27 cm
Turner, George, 1817 or 1818-1891 · 1884 · Book
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[Pratt, George] [from old catalog] · 1862 · Book
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.