• Ole Taeao Afua, the new morning 

  Tamasese, Kiwi; Peteru, Carmel; Waldegrave, Charles; Bush, Allister (2005)
• Alone and In Between Cultural and Academic Worlds 

  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 ...
• Teu Le Va: Samoan relational ethics 

  ANAE, Melani (Addleton Academic Publishers, 2016)

  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 ...
• The Samoan parsonage family: The concepts of feagaiga and tagata’ese 

  MUAIAVA, Sadat (Intellect Ltd Article, 2015)

  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 ...
• Archaeology in Samoa – the Pulemelei Investigations 

  de Biran, Antoine; Clark, Geoffrey; Martinsson-Wallin, Helene; Efi, Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Taisi Tupuola Tufuga; Wallin, Paul (2007)

  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 ...
• SÄMOA’S PRE-CONTACT CONNECTIONS IN WEST POLYNESIA AND BEYOND 

  BARNES, SHAWN S.; HUNT, TERRY L. (2005)
• LET THE REMAINS ASK THE QUESTIONS 

  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 ...
• Capturing the Experiences of Samoa: 

  Emiliata, Tagialofa; Iosua, Tamala; Eteuati, Mika; Boodoosingh, Ramona, et al (Oceania Publications, 2020)
• Cultural Values and Education in Western Santoa: Tensions Between Colonial Roots and Influences and Contemporary Indigenous Needs 

  TAVANA, Gaugau Vaafuti; HITE, Steven J.; RANDALL, E.Vance (Technomic Publishing Co., Inc, 1997)

  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- ...
• Kinship and belonging 

  Freeman, Claire; Niusulu, Anita Latai; Schaaf, Michelle; Taua’a, Tuiloma Susana; Tanielu, Helen, et al. (Sage, 2022)

  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 ...
• Implementing women’s and children’s rights 

  Martin, Penny (2002-10)
• Self-represented litigation and meaningful access to justice in Aotearoa and Samoa 

  Fa’amatuainu, Bridget (Sage, 2023)

  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 ...
• O le ‘Va Tapuia’ (Ua tapuia le va) o se ala so’otaga i Su’esu’ega ma Mafutaga Fa'aletagata ma le Si’osi’omaga. 

  Amituanai-Toloa, Meaola (2006)
• The role of religion in local perceptions of disasters 

  Holmgaard, Sanne Bech (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-11-15)

  This paper explores religious perceptions of disasters and their implications for post-disaster processes of religious and cultural change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in post-tsunami Samoa, this study investigates how ...
• No (wo)man is an island 

  Persson, Klara; Zampoukos, Kristina; Ljunggren, Ida (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-01-20)

  This paper revolves around women tourism entrepreneurs in the Pacific island nation of Samoa where an ancient way of living (fa’a Samoa) co-exists with colonial heritage and a growing tourism industry. By adopting a ...
• A second chance in education 

  Earl, Kerry; Fa'ava'a, David Taufui Mikato (Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Te Kura Toi Tangata Division of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2021)

  A second chance in education is becoming more and more infrequent in the region. The study is the first in Samoa and makes references to existing literature on teacher upgrade. This paper investigated whether the Teacher ...
• Love Shouldn’t Hurt – E le Sauā le Alofa 

  Mannell, Jenevieve; Tevaga, Pepe; Heinrich, Sina; Fruean, Sam, et al (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-04-13)

  Despite the widespread adoption of Theories of Change (ToC) for programme evaluation, the process of collaboratively developing these theories is rarely outlined or critical analysed, limiting broader methodological ...
• Being Bashed: Western Samoan women's responses to domestic violence in Western Samoa and New Zealand 

  CRIBB, Jo (Carfax Publishing Ltd, 1999)

  Given the large impact that domestic violence has on many women’s lives, it is surprising that research in this area has largely neglected the ways in which women respond to this problem in different cultural contexts. ...
• Popular political attitudes in Samoa: Findings of the Pacific Attitudes Survey 

  Leach, Michael; Julien, Barbara; Chan Mow, Ioana; Vaai, Sina; Mudaliar, Christopher, et al (Crawford School of Public Policy of the Australian National University and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd., 2022-07-20)

  Popular political attitudes surveys have been conducted globally for several decades, but the Pacific region remains an exception. This paper presents the findings of the first Pacific Attitudes Survey (PAS), conducted in ...
• Gender and candidate selection in a weakly institutionalised party system: the case of Samoa 

  Baker, Kerryn (Australian Political Studies Association, 2017-12-14)

  Women’s political representation has historically been low in Samoa, as in much of the Pacific region. Candidate selection is viewed as a crucial factor in women’s under-representation globally. This article contends that ...

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