Status, Role, and Prestige

Age Stratification

Gender Status

Rules of Descent

Community Structure

Inter-Community Relations

Sociocultural Trends

Special Crops

Buying and Selling

Internal Trade

Individual Enterprise

Corporate Organization

Social Personality

Community Councils

Social Control

Informal in-Group Justice

Judicial Authority

Household

Extended Families

Real Property

Inheritance

Family Relationships

Magical and Mental Therapy

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Priesthood

Congregations

Flora

Writing

Hunting and Trapping

Domesticated Animals

Tillage

Vegetable Production

Arboriculture

Diet

Land Use

Kin Relationships

Lineages

Community Heads

Ethnosociology

Historical Reconstruction

History

Ethnic Stratification

Multi-Ethnic Community Relations

Form and Rules of Government

Chief Executive

External Relations

Political Movements

Missions

Production and Supply

External Trade

Ethos

Competition

Ingroup Antagonisms

Special Courts

Warfare

Regulation of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Secondary Marriages

Residence

Polygamy

Premarital Sex Relations

Phonology

Linguistic Identification

Identification

Material Not Relevant

Population

Dwellings

Settlement Patterns

Towns

Bibliographies in Sources

Location

Climate

Topography and Geology

Cultural Identity and Pride

Territorial Hierarchy

Kinship Terminology

Cousins

Kinship Regulation of Sex

Reviews and Critiques

Research and Development

Drives and Emotions

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Cultural Norms

Education System

Pharmaceuticals

Theory of Disease

Medical Therapy

Revelation and Divination

Cooperative Organization

Organized Ceremonial

Mats and Basketry

Shipbuilding

Occupational Specialization

Cult of the Dead

General Character of Religion

Cosmology

Eschatology

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Verbal Arts

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Visual Arts

Music

Prayers and Sacrifices

Alcoholic Beverages

Rest Days and Holidays

Visiting and Hospitality

Ritual

Composition of Population

Mythology

Animism

Spirits and Gods

Religious Denominations

Religious Intolerance and Martyrs

General Tools

Division of Labor by Gender

CULTURE SUMMARY: SAMOANS

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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The Samoans are Polynesian people who live on a group of small islands in the Central Pacific which constitute the territories of American Samoa and (since 1962) the independent state of Western Samoa. They are mainly root-and-tree crop horticulturalists, raising taro, yams, bananas, breadfruit, and coconuts. Their diet is supplemented by fishing, animal husbandry, and some hunting. Many families earn some money by selling coconuts or copra, the ripe coconut meat. Many Samoan families also earn income from children who live and work abroad, mainly in New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and California.

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