History of Samoa

Samoa, a small island nation found in the southern end of Pacific Ocean. Although, what they lack in size is compensated by their rich, Polynesian culture. Music is a powerful force in Samoan culture, and shapes their identity with the use of resonant lyrics sung in their native tongue, song, and dance used to parallel their everyday lives and beliefs. Storytelling is as big of an element to Samoan music and dance as any rhythm produced by their instrumentation, and if it is not directly addressed

Samoa is a small island nation found in the southern Pacific Ocean, although, what they lack in size is compensated by their rich, Polynesian-based culture. Music is a powerful force in Samoan culture, and shapes their identity with the use of resonant lyrics sung in their native tongue, song, and dance used to parallel their everyday lives and beliefs. Storytelling is as big of an element to Samoan music and dance as any rhythm produced by their instrumentation, and if it is not directly addressed

Summer Wise Anthropology 314 J. Howell December 7, 2017 Tattooing in Samoa Introduction: why does this matter? Origin story and meaning The Samoans are an ethnic group that reside in Oceania, on the islands of Samoa, in an area of Polynesia. Samoa has been occupied by these indigenous people for about 3000 years, when they came from the west, occupying the islands of Fiji and Tonga around the same time (Barnes and Hunt 2005, 243). They carry many traditions with their culture, however, I will be

then the islands of Micronesia was owned by Germany. The main focus is in the Polynesian triangle not the earliest islander, but the largest population that lies within the clutter of islands, this would be Samoan island. Learning about the land histories of economics and ways of life. One interesting fact is that the idea of Tribal tattoos was famous from the Polynesian Pacific islanders. They would cover themselves head to toe in unique designs, each design usually showed what island they specifically

Samoa has been around for many centuries dating as far back as 3000 years ago according to researchers and scientists. Throughout the years, the Samoan culture has gained a various amount of influence under the ruling of the U.S., the U.K., Germany and also New Zealand before it became its own independent state. To this very day, the old style traditions and values of Samoa are still practiced on a daily basis. Whether it be practicing religion, or relying on agriculture as one of their main resources

Prior to coming to American Samoa, Mead had no knowledge of the Samoan language, and began studying less than a week after her initial arrival in Tutuila (Orans 1996). Mead reports her fluency of the Samoan language after the first months, and her ability to speak with a variety of Samoans in their own language. However, Freeman would later question Mead’s claim of the language in Margaret Mead and Samoa, by stating that the period Mead gave to obtaining a fluent command of the Samoan language “was

rates of obesity globally (Mata et al, 2007). Proportionately, American Samoa is the most obese country in the world with 75% of the population being obese. Independent Samoa follows close behind with a level of 54% obesity among the population. In American Samoa, the average Body Mass Index of adults age 25-64 is 34.9, which is roughly 5 points above the obesity threshold (Samoa, 2013). As these measures of obesity in Samoa reach epidemic levels and continue to increase, research as been conducted

would have learned about the wars against the Native Americans from the 17th to the 19th Centuries, for example, the annexation of Hawaii in 1898, and the Philippines War of 1899-1902, if indeed he had not known all about these before. American Samoa was annexed only nine years before Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii, when the U.S. was in a particularly expansionist and imperial stage. At no time were the peoples of these consulted about whether they wished to be annexed to the United States, although

Nature versus Nurture Controversy: Critical Analysis of The Mead-Freeman Debate Research Topic Outline In 1983, Derek Freeman challenged Margaret Mead’s 1928 ethnographic work Coming of Age in Samoa, Freeman asserted that Mead’s conclusion of adolescent behavior conflicted with important facts within the social sciences. Freeman’s critique sparked an intense controversy in anthropology regarding the concept of nature versus nurture. Freeman claimed that Boasians’ insisted on separating cultural determinism

Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa (In Samoan: Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Sāmoa), previously known as Western Samoa is an Oceanian nation in the South Pacific Ocean entailing its two primary islands: Upolu and Savai’i. Polynesian explorers were said to have arrived on the island thousands of years ago, however its oldest known site of human occupation was the settlement of Mulifauna on the island of Upolu, which dates back to about 1000 BC. The Samoans have many imperative social and