book chapter
Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before: together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific
Macmillan and co. • London • Published In 1884 • Pages:
By: Turner, George.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is an early description of the culture of Samoa. It was written by a missionary who spent forty years in Oceania, a great part of this time in Samoa. The material here was originally published in an earlier work, Nineteen Years in Polynesia (1861), as part of a personal narrative. It has been separated, revised, and expanded and here takes the form of a book in itself. The author covers the fields of religious beliefs, social organization, and technology. The final chapters of that part of the book which has been processed for the files consist of notes on place names in Samoa.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mythology
- Animism
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Extended families
- Revelation and divination
- Avoidance and taboo
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Sacred objects and places
- Priesthood
- Trial procedure
- Local officials
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Tillage
- Techniques of socialization
- Childbirth
- Infant feeding
- Verbal arts
- Regulation of marriage
- Burial practices and funerals
- Dwellings
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- 1840-ca. 1880
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1840-1884
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- George Turner
- Omitted : Chapter XXIII, Ethnological Notes from Other Islands, pages 267-350; Appendix, pages 351-376
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05023390
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoan Islands/Samoa