Su'esu'e manogi = in search of fragrance : Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi and the Samoan indigenous reference
Tamasailau Sua'ali'i-Sauni (Editor), I'uogafa Tuagalu (Editor), Tofilau Nina Kirifi-Alai (Editor), Naomi Fuamatu (Editor)
This book is a celebration of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi's intellectual and cultural legacy to Samoa, providing Tui Atua's writings and thoughts on Samoan indigenous knowledge. It was first compiled and published as a festschrift in commemoration of his seventiethbirthday. Tui Atua is Samoa'sHead of State and is currently the only holder of one of Samoa's four pāpā (aristocratic chiefly) titles --Tui Atua. The book also contains responses fromfourteenof Samoa's leading and emerging scholars (including two Rhodes Scholars), based within and outside Samoa. The book searches for the best of what His Highness terms 'the Samoan indigenous reference' and enlarges our contemporary understandings of indigenous knowledge
Print Book, English, 2018
Huia Publishers, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 542 pages : map ; 24 cm
9781775502968, 1775502961
1057446674
Part A: Tui Atua and the Samoan indigenous reference. The riddle in Samoan history: the relevance of language, names, honorifics, genealogy, ritual and chant to historical analysis
Tamafaigā: Shaman, king or maniac? The emergence of Manono
Faasamoa speaks to my heart and my soul
In search of meaning, nuance and metaphor
More on meaning, nuance and metaphor
In search of meaning, nuance and metaphor in social policy
Resident, residence, residency in Samoan custom
In search of harmony: peace in the Samoan indigenous religion
Clutter in indigenous knowledge, research and history: a Samoan perspective
A wedding, a party and Samoan funerals: Pacific leadership and cultural competence
Navigating our future together
O le faautaga i le faaluafesasi: insight into dilemmas: advancing Pasifika peoples in Aotearoa
Le taulasea e, ia muaʼi fo ʼia lou maʼi: physician, heal thyself: planning for the next generation
Samoan jurisprudence and the Samoan lands and Titles Court: the perspective of a litigant
Bio-ethics and the Samoan indigenous reference
In search of Tagaloa: Pulemeli, Samoan mythology and science
Water and the Samoan indigenous reference
Tupualegase: the eternal riddle
Part B: Commentaries. Remembering Samoan history / Toeolesulusulu Damon I. Salesa
Reconciling modern knowledge with ancient wisdom / Papalii Failautusi Avegalio
In search of meaning, nuance and metaphor: a post-colonial shift of minds? / Anne-Marie Tupuola
Standing at the threshold / Karen I. Lupe
The borderlands: relocating Samoan identity / Uesifili Unasa
Where you live, who you are / Aumua Clark Peteru
The Samoan indigenous reference : intimations of a romantic sensibilité / Iʼuogafa Tuagalu
Pacific leadership and cultural competence / Loretta T.E. Mamea
Navigating our future together: a humble comment on the thoughts of a man of exceptional talent / Leʼapai Lau Asofou Soʼo
The personal gaze, critical voice and self-reflexivity / Anne-Marie Tupuola
Samoan jurisprudence / Etuale Lealofi
Bio-ethics and the Samoan indigenous reference / Alexander Fala and Katie Fala
An epic quest for the Samoan indigenous reference / Penehuro F. Lefale
Between monsters and gods / Lealiifano Albert Fefiti