An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
Literature on Samoa
Literature on Samoa
Early Voyagers
- Behrens (1721-1722)
- Bougainville (1766-1769)
- Dumont d'Urville (1837-1840)
- Edwards (1790-1791)
- Erskine (1849)
- Kotzebue (1823-1826)
- La PÉrouse (1785-1788)
- Roggeveen (1721-1722)
- Wilkes (1838-1842)
Other Writers
Churchward, Spencer, A new Samoan grammar, Melbourne, 1926.
Fraser, John, Folk songs and myths from Samoa: Polynesian Soc., Jour., vol. 5, pp. 171-183; vol. 6, pp. 19-36, 67-76, 107-122; vol. 7, pp. 15-29; vol. 9, pp. 125-134, 1896-98, 1900.
page 99Freeman, J. D., The Falemaunga caves: Polynesian Soc., Jour., vol. 53, pp. 86-106, 1944.
Keusing, Felix M., Modern Samoa, London, 1934.
Keesing, Felix M., The Taupo system of Samoa—a study in institutional change: Oceania, vol. 8, pp. 1-14, 1938.
KrÄmer, Augustin, Samoa-Inseln, 2 vols., Stuttgart, 1903.
Lewis, Aletta M., They call them savages, London, 1938.
Mead, Margaret, The role of the individual in Samoan culture: Royal Anthrop. Inst.Great Britain and Ireland, Jour., vol. 58, pp. 481-496, 1928.
Mead, Margaret, Coming of age in Samoa, London, 1929.
Powell, T., Some folk-songs and myths from Samoa, translated by T. Powell and G. Pratt …: Royal Soc. New South Wales, Jour., vol. 24, pp. 195-217; vol. 25, pp. 241-286; vol. 26, pp. 264-301; vol. 29, pp. 366-393, 1890-1895.
Pratt, George, Grammar and dictionary of the Samoan language, 4th edition, Samoa, 1911.
Pritchard, W. T., Polynesian reminiscences, London, 1866.
Rowe, Newton A., Samoa under the sailing gods, London, 1930.
Schultz, E., The most important principles of Samoan family law, and the laws of inheritance: Polynesian Soc., Jour., vol. 20, pp. 43-53, 1911.
Stair, J. B., Old Samoa, London, 1897.
Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), Pan-pipes in Polynesia: Polynesian Soc, Jour., vol. 50, pp. 173-184, 1941.
Turner, George, Samoa a hundred years ago and long before …, London, 1884.
Bishop Museum Publications
Coulter, John W., Land utilization in American Samoa, Bull. 170, 1941.
Handy, E. S. C.andW. C., Samoan housebuilding, cooking, and tattooing, Bull. 15, 1924.
Hornell, James, String figures of Fiji and western Polynesia, Bull. 39, 1927.
Mead, Margaret, Social organization of Manua, Bull. 76, 1930.
Sullivan, L. R., Contribution to Samoan somatology; based on field studies of E. W. Gifford and W. C. McKern, Mem., vol. 8, no. 2, 1921.
Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), Samoan material culture, Bull. 75, 1930.