book chapter
Ethnobotany of the Samoans
American Samoa • 20 • Published In 1924 • Pages: 189-224 , plates
By: Setchell, William Albert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a description of the uses of plants on Tutuila. Included are sections on food plants and agriculture, cooking, clothing, decoration and toilet, technology, and medicine. A brief section on plant myths makes frequent reference to the literature. The final section deals with the botanical nomenclature of the Samoans. This article is the second part of a three-part volume on the botany of American Samoa. Of the end plates in the original book, only those to which reference is made in the text have been reproduced for the files. The author, a botanist, spent two months on Tutuila in 1920 with a Samoan assistant and interpreter who provided most of the Samoan plant names.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Ethnobotany
- Diet
- Food preparation
- Fire
- Outbuildings
- Eating
- Nonalcoholic beverages
- Etiquette
- Tillage
- Extended families
- Settlement patterns
- Collecting
- Visiting and hospitality
- Special crops
- 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.
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- 1920
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1924
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Albert Setchell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoa