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God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific
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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...

Whispers and Vanities: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion
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Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel Vitolia Moa · Huia Pub. · 2014 · Book

"Published with the assistance of the Gaualofa Trust"--Title page verso.

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
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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...

Tuiga Po'o Le Lauao: Mano'o 'Auimatagi Fa'asalaia'i Le'uo Avataeao Kato 'Ulu Kini
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Mano'o ʻAuimatagi Fa'asalaia'i Le'uo Avataeao Kato ʻUlu Kini · 2000 · Book

Tala O Le Vavau: The Myths, Legends, and Customs of Old Samoa
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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.

Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
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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...

The Meaning of the Name Samoa
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Joseph C. Finney · The University of Auckland (for the Polynesian Society) · 1973 · Journal article

Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before. Together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific
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Turner, George, 1817 or 1818-1891 · 1884 · Book

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