In September 2009, the south coast of Samoa was hit by a tsunami causing severe material damage and 143 casualties. Based on empirical data from two tsunami affected villages, this thesis explores how members of the affected ...
BORRERO, NOAH E.; YEH, CHRISTINE J.; TITO, PATSY; LUAVASA, MERYLLIA(Trustees of Boston University, 2010)
In a collaborative research study with a Samoan community leader
and a high school student, the authors explored the academic and
cultural identities of 10 Samoan high school students. In-depth
qualitative interviews ...
Development of Pacific research guidelines can become unnecessarily cluttered, with
competing, unclear designs, and gaps in the transference of customary knowledge
across space and time. Standard ethics discourse goes ...
From 1839 to 1979, a period spanning 140 years, more than 600 Samoan missionary couples
were sent out by the London Missionary Society to spread the Gospel to islands of the western
Pacific. Although much has been written ...
Contact between the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and the western world has
had immense sociocultural and linguistic impacts on indigenous communities.
Perhaps the major source of sociocultural and linguistic impact ...
Agricultural development is intimately tied to the environment and cultural practices,
specifically socio-political change. Nowhere are these relationships more clear than on
Polynesian islands. Many sequences of ...
1) This article touches upon views gained from traditional or oral
history together with views of modern scientific method to reach at
understandings of past actions. The text presents an emic view
concerning the Pulemelei ...
WEHLIN, Joakim(Hogskolan pa Gotland (Gotland University), 2006)
My interest in ethno-archaeology and a Minor Field Study grant brought me to Samoa.
There I had a chance to participate in a multinational project “The Pulemelei project, the
origins and Development of Monumental ...
I was six when-Mama was careless-She sent me to
school-Alone-five days a week . . . on my
release-fifteen years after- I was handed (among loud
applause from my fellow victims)- a piece of paper-to
decorate my walls- ...
Our study with 71 children aged 6-14 living in New Zealand and Samoa, provides a new
child-centred perspective on transnational diasporic families. We use the Pacific concept
va to frame the study, in which children’s ...
More than a decade ago, the first exploratory study into the experiences of Self-Represented Litigants in Aotearoa (New Zealand) recommended the need for more cultural perspectives in this area of research. This article ...