Book
Old Samoa: or flotsam and jetsam from the Pacific Ocean
The Religious Tract Society • London • Published In 1897 • Pages:
By: Stair, John B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is an early account of traditional Samoan culture by a missionary who spent seven years in Samoa shortly before the middle of the last century, before many traditional beliefs and practices were discontinued. The author discusses the natural history of Samoa and describes the social, political, and religious customs of the Samoans. The author made it a point to collect information and record it while in Samoa. Later, these notes were supplemented by a Samoan chief who lived with the author in England. This document is valuable because it contains data which are impossible to obtain in Samoa at the present.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Inter-community relations
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Community councils
- Settlement patterns
- Districts
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Water supply
- Land use
- Status, role, and prestige
- Slavery
- Locomotion
- External relations
- 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.
- 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
- 1838-1845
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1700-1897
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- by the Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introd. by the Bishop of Ballarat
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk82075611
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoa