Book
Samoan planters: tradition and economic development in Polynesia
Holt, Rinehart and Winston • Fort Worth • Published In 1990 • Pages: xvii, 242
By: O'Meara, J. Tim.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book describes economic life of Samoan planters in the Western Samoan village of Vaega and Neiafu. It shows Samoan villagers traditionally lived on planting coconuts and taro, and breeding pigs. Over the last several decades, however, they have responded strongly and quickly to a wide variety of market-led economic incentives. This has brought important changes including the mergence of two different land tenure systems, one traditional and communal and the other modern and individual. In discussing these changes, the author argues against policy views which wrongly viewed Samoan planters as lazy and blind-followers of unchanging tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Arboriculture
- Special crops
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Kin relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Real property
- External relations
- Research and development
- Buying and selling
- Labor and leisure
- Labor supply and employment
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- 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
- 1981-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Tim O'Meara
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-233)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89027894
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Samoans-Social conditions/Samoans-Economic conditions/Rural development-Samoa/Developing countries-Economic conditions