book chapter
Western Samoa
South Seas in transition; a study of post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction in three British Pacific dependencies • Sydney • Published In 1953 • Pages: xii-xiii, 259-367
By: Stanner, W. E. H. (William Edward Hanley).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is the third part of a volume on the post-war situation in Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, and Western Samoa. Its purpose is to survey the post-war reconstruction which has taken place in Western Samoa. The text was originally written in 1947 and expanded to include events to 1950. This document deals with the contemporary political scene in Western Samoa, and the efforts of the Samoans to achieve self-government, against the background of traditional Samoan culture. The author has included sections on the socio-economic background, the New Zealand administrative system, the contemporary Samoan community, the Samoan ethos and modal personality, the Samoan adjustment to World War II and its aftermath, the demographic situation in Samoa, and the movement for self-government. The author makes frequent reference to the work of other anthropologist in Samoa and occasionally, especially in his chapter on ethos, introduces data which challenge extreme interpretations of Samoan culture and personality. Stanner has performed the valuable service of integrating material on Samoan social structure and summarizing salient factors in changing contemporary Samoa.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Ethos
- Settlement patterns
- Extended families
- Kinship terminology
- Community councils
- Rule of descent
- Status, role, and prestige
- Personal names
- Ethnosociology
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- General character of religion
- Missions
- Real property
- Religious denominations
- Local officials
- Diet
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Samoans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- William W. Stein ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- none
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- W. E. H. Stanner
- 'Issued under the joint auspices of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations.'
- Footnotes in this document are at the end of each chapter, as follows: chapter I footnotes, pp. 272-273; chapter II footnotes, pp. 288-289; chapter III footnotes, p. 304; chapter IV footnotes, pp. 322-323; chapter V footnotes, none; chapter VI footnotes, pp. 344-345; chapter VII footnotes, pp. 366-367. Each set of footnotes will be found in OCM 113.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53010748
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Samoa/Samoa