Download or read book Samoa the Polynesian Paradise written by Kipeni Suápaía and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 1962 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Customs, Legends And The Tribal Form Of Government Of The Samoan Islands.
Download or read book Samoa written by Kipeni Su'apa'ia and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polynesian Paradise written by Donald Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polynesian Paradise written by Ronald William Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating story of the life and customs of the south Pacific, and of how God's message transforms the isalnd peoples. - 1. Missionary to a Polymesian Paradise. 2. Best Wishes and Half-Hatched Eggs. 3. Pagan Prophetess. 4. Bequest of Babel. 5. Island Navigators. 6. Bark Without Bite. 7. A Sight to See. 8. Whitewashing the Devil. 9. Fire Inside. 10. Fish Our of Water. 11. Spring of Ever-Flowing Water. 12. Two Pieces of Tape
Download or read book Evil Paradise written by Jane Schwalger-Wyatt and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil Paradise is based on the author’s unique and moving life story. Jane Schwalger-Wyatt was born the illegitimate child of a wealthy plantation owner’s nephew and a traditional village girl on the exotic Polynesian island of Samoa. Born between two cultures and classes in the turbulent post-colonial years, and unwanted by either parent, her future looked bleak. After Jane’s birth, a pact was made between her grandmother and her wealthy great aunt. Jane spent her first ten years as a village girl raised by her grandmother, with her identity kept secret. Although adored by her grandmother, she endured hardship, brutality, and sexual abuse. Upon her grandmother’s death, Jane escaped to what she thought would be paradise on earth: her rich aunt’s estate, but she discovered that it held terrible secrets. In time, Jane learned about the savage history that blighted the plantation and the bizarre secret kept hidden upstairs in the mansion. After a failed reunion with her father, she was sent to her mother in New Zealand, where she was rejected yet again. Whilst battling overwhelming obstacles to make a life for herself, Jane’s second child was diagnosed with profound disabilities. How she managed to endure proves an unparalleled feat of human endurance and faith. She clung to the few that truly loved her, striving to make a life for herself with fierce and inspirational determination.
Download or read book Forever in Paradise written by Apelu Tielu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forever in Paradise is the story of a Samoan born to affluence and privilege. Sent to study in New Zealand, Solomona Tuisamoa excels academicallyand rises to prominence in the Samoan university community. Here he becomes the natural leader of the Samoans, and is respected and admired by men and women alike. Forever in Paradise introduces the reader to the fascinating culture of Samoa, its beautiful landscape and its intriguing myths and legends. In essence a love story, this engaging novel grapples with cultural tensions and the challenges faced by a traditional community dealing with the economicimperatives of modern living.
Download or read book PICTURES of CHANGE in PARADISE in American Samoa circa 1910 written by Karen Wheat and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection and descriptions of 55 professional historical rare black and white photographs (circa 1910) of people, places and buildings taken in the Samoan islands of the South Pacific. Photographer unknown.
Download or read book Tiki Pop written by Sven Kirsten and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult of kitsch: The art and history of the Tiki phenomenon Tiki culture at its height was a manifestation of exotic visions of island culture inspired by the tales of American soldiers stationed in the South Pacific during World War II: trees loaded with exotic fruits, sleepy lagoons, white-sand beaches, and gorgeous people wearing grass skirts as they danced half-naked during all-night orgies of food and music. Americans embraced these visions and incorporated fantasy into reality: mid-century fashion, popular music, eating and drinking, and even architecture were influenced by the Tiki trend. With unfettered enthusiasm--ignoring scholarly authenticity and political correctness--American artisans molded the Tiki into their own image, creating a mid-century pop culture genre that was forgotten until the 2000s, when urban archeologist Sven Kirsten wrested the figure of the Tiki from obscurity with his pioneering TASCHEN books "The Book of Tiki "and" Tiki Modern." This book traces the development of Tiki as romantic vision and kitschy cultural appropriation, from its earliest beginnings when James Cook "discovered" the Pacific Islands in the second half of the 18th century to Herman Melville's South Sea adventure stories like "Moby Dick" and Gauguin's exuberant, exotic paintings to the jungle fantasies of the Hollywood dream factory. Published in connection with an exhibition at the prestigious Musee du quai Branly in Paris, "Tiki Pop" the culmination of Sven Kirsten's research efforts. With his widely lauded visual style, the author places venerable ancient godheads next to their Polynesian pop counterparts. With hundreds of previously unpublished images, the story of Tiki the 20th-century pop icon unfolds from its earliest beginnings to its spectacular downfall in the dawning awareness of the Western world's colonial misdeeds.
Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by Susanna Moore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
Download or read book Adventures in Paradise written by Willard Price and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picturing Paradise written by Elizabeth Edwards and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cricket Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa 1879 1939 written by Benjamin Sacks and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest between and within the categories of ‘colonisers’ and ‘colonised.’ How and why did Samoans adapt and appropriate the imperial game? How did officials, missionaries, colonists, soldiers and those with mixed foreign and Samoan heritage understand and respond to the real and symbolic challenges kirikiti presented? And how did Samoans use both games to navigate foreign colonialism(s)? By investigating these questions, Benjamin Sacks suggests alternative frameworks for conceptualising sporting transfer and adoption, and advances understandings of how power, politics and identity were manifested through sport, in Samoa and across the globe.
Download or read book Tattoos from Paradise written by Mark A. Blackburn and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional tattooing designs are depicted from the exotic Polynesian cultures of Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga. The process and ceremonies involved in tattooing are described and illustrated by Blackburn.
Download or read book Theorizing Self in Samoa written by Jeannette Marie Mageo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Jeannette Marie Mageo develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa--which provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, and uncovers ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives. Photos.
Download or read book Stevenson s Isles of Paradise written by Alva Carothers and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samoa Paradise in the South Pacific written by Richard Vandewalle and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Performances written by C. Balme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the Eighteenth century to the present. It examines Western theatrical representations of Pacific cultures and investigates how Pacific Islanders used their own cultural performances to negotiate the colonial situation.
