Book
Modern Samoa: its government and changing life
G. Allen & Unwin ltd. • London • Published In 1934 • Pages:
By: Keesing, Felix Maxwell.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a socio-political analysis of Samoan history and contemporary Samoan society. Keeping describes the development and present condition of, and makes recommendations for administrative policy with regard to the Samoan government, judicial system, land tenure system, economy, public health administration, and educational system. The author also includes chapters on contract labor and hybridization in Samoa. Throughout the book sections on Western Samoa and American Samoa alternate with each other. Keesing spent eight months of field work in the two parts of Samoa, ca. 1929.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Community councils
- Form and rules of government
- Traditional history
- Ethos
- Labor and leisure
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Status, role, and prestige
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Ethics
- General character of religion
- External relations
- Political movements
- Ethnosociology
- Administrative agencies
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Missions
- Education system
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 1780-1934
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Felix M. Keesing ...
- Material on American Samoa has been filed in OU4 American Samoa.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-500)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 34018173
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoan Islands/Samoa