Book
Sala'ilua, a Samoan mystery
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1982 • Pages:
By: Shore, Bradd.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book explores salient features of Samoan culture as reflected in the daily life and interaction of villagers in a locality called Sala'ilua. Beginning with a brief account of events surrounding the murder of a titled village 'Orator' by the son of a senior village 'Chief,' the author explores several ambiguities in the internal logic and organization of Samoan culture and society. These ambiguities are exemplified in the pervasiveness of symmetry and complementarity in social relationships which, according to the author, reproduced deep-seated structural tensions in the status and roles of individuals within families, kinship groups and neighborhoods.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Community councils
- Status, role, and prestige
- Etiquette
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Inter-community relations
- Lineages
- Rule of descent
- Kin relationships
- Inheritance
- Offenses against life
- Initiation of judicial proceedings
- Legal norms
- Territorial hierarchy
- Social personality
- Ethos
- Cultural identity and pride
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1971-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bradd Shore
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-326) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81024188
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Samoa--Sala'ilua/Sala'ilua (Samoa)--Social life and customs