My Samoan Chief /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Calkins, Fay,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
©1962
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Pacific Classics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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