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Americanization in Samoa
American mercury • 16 • Published In 1929 • Pages: 264-270
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a brief account of acculturation in American Samoa. The author focuses on administrative contacts with respect to government regulations, justice, and public health. One section is devoted to religion. For background information about the author, see 2: Mead in category 111, OU8 Samoa. This document has been processed for OU4 American Samoa.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Administrative agencies
- Education system
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Judicial authority
- Sanctions
- Vocational education
- Missions
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1925-1926
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1928
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Mead
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 25011667
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoa