Fay Calkins My Samoan Chief 9780824858971

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Автор: Fay Calkins
Название: My Samoan Chief
ISBN: 9780824858971
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии: общее жизнеописание

История Австралазии и Тихоокеании

Этнические исследования

Социология: обычаи и традиции

ISBN-10: 0824858972
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 30.06.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 216 x 140 x 14
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Biography: general,Australasian & Pacific history,Ethnic studies,Sociology: customs & traditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,HISTORY / Oceania,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American womans life in her Samoan husbands native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Alailima, 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.
Дополнительное описание: Sociology|Cultural studies: customs and traditions|Australasian and Pacific history|Ethnic studies|Biography: general

My Samoan Chief, Fay Calkins