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Saili matagi : Samoan migrants in Australia / Leulu Felise Vaʻa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific ; Apia, Samoa : Iunivesite Aoao O Samoa (National University of Samoa), 2001.Description: 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9820203252
  • 9789820203259
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89/9462/094 22
Contents:
Ch. 1: Introduction -- Ch. 2: Samoan migration: a historical background -- Ch. 3: Canterbury-Bansktown: background and socio-economic -- Ch. 4: The Christian Church and the Fa'a Samoa -- Ch 5: Exchange, support networks and remittances -- Ch. 6: Family, community and identity -- Ch. 7: Fa'a-Samoa: continuities and change.
Summary: An exploration of the practice of fa'a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of traditionn within their communities and of the search for opportunities in new environments.
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Texts - cam Texts - cam TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection PAC 305.8994094 VAA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan FEAH25030986

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-267) and index.

Ch. 1: Introduction -- Ch. 2: Samoan migration: a historical background -- Ch. 3: Canterbury-Bansktown: background and socio-economic -- Ch. 4: The Christian Church and the Fa'a Samoa -- Ch 5: Exchange, support networks and remittances -- Ch. 6: Family, community and identity -- Ch. 7: Fa'a-Samoa: continuities and change.

An exploration of the practice of fa'a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of traditionn within their communities and of the search for opportunities in new environments.

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