My Samoan Chief / / Fay Calkins.
This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Ala'ilima, a descendant of Samoan chiefs, while working on her doctoral dissertation in the Library of Congress. Af...
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Calkins, Fay, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut My Samoan Chief / Fay Calkins. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021] ©1962 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Pacific Classics Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Library of Congress -- 2. Courtship—Samoan Style -- 3. Return of the Native -- 4. Seven Samoan Sons -- 5. Co-op Encounter -- 6. Salani and Its Past -- 7. Salani and Its Present -- 8. Into the Forest Primeval -- 9. By What Right-? -- 10. Stone Wheels -- 111. Sturm und Drang -- 12. My Matai -- 13. Matatufu -- 14. Beachcombers and Archaeologists -- 15. All in the Family -- 16. New Generation -- 17. Alone -- 18. No Good-by -- 19. On Malaga restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Ala'ilima, a descendant of Samoan chiefs, while working on her doctoral dissertation in the Library of Congress. After an unconventional courtship and a typical American wedding, they set out for Western Samoa, where Fay was to find a way of life totally new and charming, if at times frustrating and confusing.Soon after her arrival in the islands, the bride of a few months found herself with a family of seven boys in a wide range of ages, sent by relatives to live with the new couple. She was stymied by the economics of trying to support numerous guests, relatives, and a growing family, and still contribute to the lavish feasts that were given on any pretext--feasts, where the guests brought baskets in which to take home as much of the largesse as they could carry.Fay tried to introduce American institutions: a credit union, a co-op, a work schedule, and hourly wages on the banana plantation begun by her and her husband. In each instance, she quickly learned that Samoans were unwilling or unable to grasp her Western ideas of input equaling output, of personal property, or of payment received for work done. Despite these frustrations and disappointments, however, life among the people of her Samoan chief was for Fay happy and productive. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110564150 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824843977 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824843977 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824843977/original |
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