21. MetaCrawler Results | Search Query = Western%20samoa of Feng Shui in our (western) culture. We offer http//www.wsfs.com (Excite PrecisionSearch) More like this. Independent State of (western) samoa Articles and http://search.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=Western Samoa

22. MetaCrawler Results | Search Query = Western Samoa samoa page 1 - Late in 1968 I went to (western) samoa to spend a year there photographingthe people and their culture and doing anthropological research. http://search.metacrawler.com/texis/search?q=Western Samoa

23. Western Samoa culture. Enough Reason for me to explore this Pacific culture. I tookthese photos in the thick jungle of (western) samoa. The samoan http://www.exploring.nu/samoa2.htm

The Exploring Travelogue Talofa! waterfalls, traditional villages, volcanoes, miles of rugged coastline, beaches, lava tube caves, remote destinations, traditional activities, perfect reef barrels for surfing, 3000-6000 foot mountains and....a 5000 year old culture. Enough Reason for me to explore this Pacific Culture. I took these photos in the thick jungle of Western Samoa The Samoan Islands were first seen by Europeans in 1722 when three Dutch ships commanded by Jacob Roggewein visited the eastern island known as Manua. A member of Roggewein's expedition described the natives in these words: " They are friendly in their speech and courteous in their behavior, with no apparent trace of wildness or savagery. They do not paint themselves, as do the natives of some other islands, but on the lower part of the body they wear artfully woven silk tights or knee breeches. They are altogether the most charming and polite natives we have seen in all of the South Seas." The Dutch ships lay at anchor off the islands for several days, but members of the crew did not venture ashore and apparently did not even get close enough to the natives to realize that they were not wearing silk breeches, but tattooing on their legs. The Market of Apia, Western Samoa

24. WEST SAMOA a 5000 year old culture . STRIVING difference . (western) samoa has beenlargely unaffected by tourism development and we like it this way. http://home.pi.se/~orbit/samoa/intro.html

INTRODUCING SAMOA O RBIT'S GLOBAL TRAVEL GUIDE. So, sit back, relax and enjoy as you explore this holiday destination with ease. You are about to be taken on an electronic vacation (an E-vac) through the islands of Samoa. And a big welcome to you all from the Western Samoa Visitors Bureau. You never know, we may convince you to come and visit WESTERN SAMOA. And if you need 300 good reasons why you should visit us, then here they are: it is the home of MANU SAMOA, our World Rugby Cup champions it is the resting place for Robert Louis Stevenson it is the Land of Legends, it's the timeless land, it's a step back in time it is where every day is an adventure it is the ecotourism capital of the South Pacific with 300 waterfalls, 300 villages, 300 volcanoes, 300 miles of rugged coastline, 300 beaches, 300 lava tube caves, 300 destinations, 300 traditional activities, 3000-6000 foot mountains and ....a 5000 year old culture.... STRIVING FOR MODERN RESPONSIBLE TOURISM WITH YOUR HELP Welcome to our Global Travel Guide and the South Seas "destination with a difference". Western Samoa has been largely unaffected by tourism development and we like it this way. YES, our Global Travel Guide is helping you find SAMOA .

25. IWon - Travel Guide - History & Culture force, the Mau Movement, dedicated to the preservation of their culture and the tmind, old chap, taking over the radio station in (western) samoa which they http://www.iwon.com/travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,Oceania-511,00.html

iWon Travel Oceania Independent Samoa Powered by HISTORY and CULTURE History Culture History The origins of Independent Samoa are shrouded in an ambiguity that is pure Samoa. The most popular theory is that Samoans, like other Polynesians, originated from the East Indies, the Malay Peninsula or the Philippines, but Samoans tell a different story. Other Polynesians, they say, might have come from Asia but Samoans come from Samoa. They believe themselves to be the cradle of Polynesian culture, a race of people created by the god Tagaloa while he was cooking up the world. In fact the Samoan legend of the beginning of the world is startlingly similar to that told in Genesis. Despite its reputation as an exotic far-away land Samoa was in fact as busy as a shopping mall from the mid-1770s when trading ships, sailing along the spice route and looking for the Great Southern Land, popped in and out with monotonous regularity. Much of the early contact and bloody encounters between Samoans and Europeans took place in the islands that are now part of American Samoa but the islands of Independent Samoa suffered the same diseases and acts of violence that came with the European ships. By the time the British arrived, looking for the troublesome Christian Fletcher and his band of merry mutineers, the Samoans were hardly in a welcoming mood. In the resulting head-to-head between the British and the Samoans, lives were lost on both sides and gave rise to the unwarranted reputation that Samoans were hostile and aggressive.

26. IWon - Travel Guide - History & Culture years, it is surprising that the locals have emerged socially unscathed, but unlikeneighboring American samoa and Tonga - (western) culture has arrived but http://www.iwon.com/travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,Oceania-548,00.html

iWon Travel Oceania Tuvalu Powered by HISTORY and CULTURE History Culture History Labour 'recruiters' from Queensland and Fiji and missionaries arrived in the 1860s, doing what they did best. So successful were the 'blackbirders' from far-off plantations that Britain decided to annex the islands in order to halt the labour trade. In 1892 the islands became part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands protectorate, then, in 1916, a crown colony. During WW2 the US used Tuvalu's northernmost atoll, Nanumea, as a base to repell the Japanese who were threatening the Gilbert Islands. Wrecks of air and sea craft are still present on the island. From the 1960s through to 1977, Tuvaluans embarked on steady constitutional development. In 1974 the Ellice Islanders voted to separate from the Micronesian Gilbertese. They then reverted to their pre-colonial name of Tuvalu ('eight standing together') and attained independence on 1 October, 1978. In 1987 the Tuvalu Trust Fund was set up by Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Korea to provide development aid. Aid may be a thing of the past, however, if recent Tuvaluan history is anything to go by. Having made a significant proportion of its GDP through sales of highly sought-after postage stamps, Tuvalu now looks set to continue cashing in on communications. In August 1998, the Tuvalu government signed a deal with a Canadian company that could net them US$65 million annually. Even though the Internet won't be available in Tuvulu until 1999, their unique electronic domain suffix, '.tv', has attracted interest from television networks worldwide. If the rewards are anything near predictions, Tuvaluans will go from being one of the least developed nations in the world, to possibly the planet's wealthiest people on a per-capita basis. And all without the crowds of obnoxious tourists that most 'tropical paradises' rely on to make bucks.

27. Western Samoa Visitors Bureau. Escape Artist (western) samoa indexes various sites ofbusiness, culture, and travel in (western) samoa. samoan Sensation http://www.byuh.edu/library/pacislands/Polynesia/PolyWestSamoa.htm

WESTERN SAMOA GENERAL Orbit's Western Samoa is a travel and tourism site sponsored by the Western Samoa Visitors Bureau. Escape Artist: Western Samoa indexes various sites of business, culture, and travel in Western Samoa. Samoan Sensation is the best site on Samoan history, culture, and fact files. GOVERNEMENT The official home page for the Government of Western Samoa provides information on the geography, people, history, and government. LANGUAGE Gagana Fa'a Samoa gives Samoan language lessons. Samoa Chat has four chatrooms Samoa, fono Samoa, aiga, and alofa. TATTOO Tattoo History Sourcebook: Samoa gives a Western history of the Samoan tatau. SAMOA NEWS Samoa Observer On-Line. Gives Local News, Sports, Opinions, Archives of Western Samoa. Return to Polynesia Flag courtesy of FOTW Flags Of The World website at http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/

28. Samoa Videos Title samoa culture in crisis. Abstract Shows how (western) samoans struggleto maintain their traditional values and cultural heritage in a modern world. http://www.byuh.edu/library/pacislands/videocatalog/samoa.html

The abstracts and notes included on each video were provided by the online catalog of each university. This catalog is only to be used for educational purposes and cannot be reproduced for commerical gain. Samoa Title: Across the South Pacific Abstract: Follows Naomi James on a 5,000 mile trip from Tonga to Samoa, Tahiti and Bora Bora, and Easter Island. Call Number: Location: BYU-H Library Title: Crossroads of the Pacific Abstract: The west Pacific Islands of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa became the cradle of Polynesia, from which the Polynesians expanded eastward across the Pacific. Focuses on Fiji's 400 islands. Call Number: Location: BYU-H Library Title: Excerpts from 1976-77 cultural programs Abstract: Excerpts from films of culture days at Polynesian Cultural Center including Maori, Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii, Fijian firewalkers and the night show finale. Call Number: Location: BYU-H Library Title: Islands of love : people of faith Abstract: Al Harrington traces the story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Pacific Islands of Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, American and Western Samoa and Tonga, starting in 1843. Call Number: Location: BYU-H Library Title: Islands of the South Pacific Abstract: Explores the geology that created the islands, the plant and animal life which colonized them, and the cultures which developed them. Covers Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti and the Marquesas.

29. Culture years, it is surprising that the locals have emerged socially unscathed, but unlikeneighbouring American samoa and Tonga - (western) culture has arrived but http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/tuvalu/about_destin/culture.html

About us Send me a Brochure Tripbuilder (Shopping Cart) Send me a Quotation ... Pacific News Member of Tuvalu Culture Tuvaluan culture is steeped in the Polynesian tradition, brought to the islands by Tongans and Samoans in the 14th century AD. Although most Tuvaluans these days are Christian, their adherance to traditional life is still an important and visible ingredient in daily life. Perhaps due to a combination of the Polynesian tradition of respect for family, community and environment and the islands' isolation from the modern world, Tuvalu was named the only nation in the world above reproach for human rights violations by a panel of observers in June 1998. Given the missionary tradition in the Pacific over the last two hundred years, it is surprising that the locals have emerged socially unscathed, but - unlike neighbouring American Samoa and Tonga - Western culture has arrived but not dominated the islands of Tuvalu. Religion is a big part of Tuvaluan life and the Sunday service is the most important event in the week. Tuvalu has been described as 'very religious' by visitors, and strict Congregational Protestantism is evident in everything from church services to business dealings. As with other Christianised Pacific islands, this imported religion has been seamlessly interwoven into the complex code of traditional ethics and behaviour.

30. Culture Gallery with further valuable information, as well as links to culture pages within Only FrenchPolynesia and (western) samoa have populations of over 100,000, and tiny http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/culture_gallery/introduction.htm

About us Send me a Brochure Tripbuilder (Shopping Cart) Send me a Quotation ... Pacific News Member of Culture Gallery Introduction ANGLONESIA Anglonesia is a neologism used here to refer to Australia New Zealand and the United States in the Pacific (ANZUS). The progress from colonialism to independence in the Pacific Islands region (both north and south of the equator) has not brought an end to the influence of the former colonial powers. Presently, there are ten territories or dependencies linked directly to an extraregional government, and five others are constrained in their foreign policies by the terms of their free associaton compacts. Like these territories, the independent states are also affected by the political, security and economic policies of the extraregional powers. There continues to be an overlap of interests between outsiders and islanders, which is likely to persist even as more island stated begin to exert their influence more and more within the region as well as globally. On our website you find more cultural info on Anglonesia at: Australian (Culture) Aboriginal Culture Aussie Slang (dictionary) Aussie Songbook ... MELANESIA As diverse internally as they are different from each other, the islands of Melanesia - those in

31. UO World Music & Dance Videos 1/2 in. SUMMARY Presents the culture of (western) samoa, a group of islands inthe South Pacific Ocean. VIDEOTAPE 02167. Solomon Islands. 'Are'are music. http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/worldvidpac.html

The Pacific Islands These videotapes and videodiscs of musics and dance of the world's peoples are available in the University of Oregon Knight Library's Video Collection. Videos by Country: General Pacific Island Videos Cook Islands Hawaii Papua New Guinea ... Tonga General Pacific Island Videos Festival of Pacific dances. Suva, Fiji : USP Media Centre, University of the South Pacific, 1995. 5 videocassettes (225 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format (PAL standard) VIDEOTAPE 03005 Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts : the Melanesians. [Honolulu] : Na Maka o ka Aina, [1988] 1 videocassette (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format. SUMMARY: Dance and music performances of participants representing Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea at the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts held in Townsville, N. Queensland, Australia. Chang. CONTENTS: [Tape 1] Solomon Islands Student Association [tape 2] Kiribati Students Association [tape 3] Rabi Students Association [tape 4] Rotuman Students Association [tape 5] Niue Students Association. SUMMARY: Various student associations of the University of the South Pacific perform traditional dances, accompanied by drums and singing.

32. Pacific Island Books : Samoa amongst the lush forests and pictureperfect villages of samoa, Paul paints an ancientbeliefs against modern economic demands and the pull of (western) culture. http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/samoa.htm

Pacific Island Books Samoa Samoa The Girl in the Moon Circle by Sia Figiel. Recommended retail price $12, our price $11. Here’s what the blurb for the book says: The Girl in the Moon Circle , like the cover drawing, shows Samoan life through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl called Samoana. Though young, Samoana is perceptive, not much escapes her analysis. She tells us about school, church, friends, family violence, having refrigerators and television for the first time, Chunky cat food, a Made-in-Taiwan Jesus, pay day, cricket, crushes on boys, incest, legends and many other things. Her observations offer a compelling look at Samoan society. Often fiction allows authors to tell truths that otherwise would be too painful; Sia Figiel is uninhibited. Her prose, in English and Samoan, hurtles readers toward the end of the book. Sia Figiel, herself, has mesmerized audiences around the Pacific Islands with readings from The Girl in the Moon Circle. Here’s what Paddy and Kat have to say: "This is a stunning “must have” piece of autobiographical fiction. Of all the books we have to offer this is one of the most moving, funny and provocative. Put this one on your shopping list". Soft cover, 134 pages. Governance in Samoa edited by Elise Huffer and Asofou So'o. Published by Institute of Pacific Studies. ISBN 982020156X. Recommended retail price $34.

33. Margaret Mead Hoax Margaret Mead should go to samoa. Boas suggested to Mead that the difficult phaseof adolescent sexual adjustment might be peculiar to (western) culture and that http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode12.htm

The Margaret Mead Hoax Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, some mischievous Polynesian girls played a joke on a gullible young utopian named Margaret Mead and the world was never the same again. Young Margaret was a student and disciple of the anthropologist Franz Boas. Though few people recognize his name today, the social influence that Franz Boas has exerted through the efforts of his renouned students is exceeded by only one other German Jew: Karl Marx. Like Marx, Boas was an extreme leftist utopian. His contribution to the science of anthropology was the doctrine of cultural relativism, which holds as axiomatic that no culture is any better than any other culture, but merely different. This doctrine is a great leveler, for its seemingly value-free approach to cultural studies has the effect of placing Western civilization on the same level with any clan of Brazilian headhunters. Boas was a foreign transplant. He arrived in America in 1886 already imbued with radical ideas, and like so many radical immigrants, hating America even before his feet left the gangplank. He became one of a rising generation of young scholars, many of them Jewish immigrants like himself, who were hostile to America’s Anglo-Saxon establishment and who were bent on subverting its values. Once he had established himself at Columbia University, Boas began his political campaign by nurturing a following of admiring students, many of them women, who would go on to become apostles of his new approach to social analysis which would do so much to subvert traditional social values and sexual morality.

34. New Zealand - South Pacific Western Samoa Apia, Upolu Hotels (western) samoa Click here to email. IN APIA Welcome to a heartwarming experience fromsamoa, South Pacific and showing the beauty of the samoan culture and way http://www.rumrabbit.com/html/NewZealand-SouthPacific/WesternSamoa/Apia,Upolu/Ho

Interlining to: Regions New Zealand - South Pacific Western Samoa Apia, Upolu : Hotels Seipepa - Samoan Travel Home Western Samoa Click here to email. Contact us for Interline Rates. CULTURAL BUDGET ACCOMMODATION IN APIA Welcome to a heart-warming experience from Samoa, South Pacific. Seipepa - Samoan Travel Home is a cultural budget hotel or backpackers in the capital town of Apia, an accommodation teaching and showing the beauty of the Samoan culture and way of life in a family atmosphere. We give you a traditional Samoan lodging where you experience Samoa and South Pacific in a cheap and heartfelt way. Budget in price but superior in warm and loving feelings. Samoa and the samoans are closer to a living paradise than many other places and people and you do not have to look for the beautiful culture, because it is lived every day. We like to invite you to our Seipepa - Samoan Travel Home, where we will introduce the culture and make you a part of it. CONTACT Mats Loefkvist Telephone: 685-25447 Fax: 685-25447 Visit our website: http://www.samoa-experience.com

35. TolSearch: Oceania/Samoa Dos and Donts samoa Tips on how to behave in a foreign culture from Concierge.com.Hotels and Travel in (western) samoa - Hotel directories. http://www.tolsearch.com/Oceania/Samoa/

Search    Advanced Search Random Link Latest Sites Top 10 Sites ... Travel News Search for:  AND  e.g. Accommodation e.g. Sydney Top Oceania : Samoa Destinations Apia Links Aggie Grey's Hotel - The legend, facilities, online reservations, wedding packages, and scenic tours. Dos and Donts: SAMOA - Tips on how to behave in a foreign culture from Concierge.com Hotels and Travel in Western Samoa - Hotel directories. Links to hotel and resort web sites. Maps. Other tourist information links. Island Time - Discussion Forum For Pacific Islanders In Europe. Map of Samoa - A small overview map from the National Geographic Society. Pacific GenWeb Samoa - Genealogy and local history for Western Samoa and American Samoa. Planet Samoa - The most complete web directory to Samoan related web sites on the internet. Samoa - Great data and historical information from Infoplease.com. Samoa - A brief overview from the National Geographic Society. Samoa - Factual information from CultureConnect including geography, people, government, economy, communications, transport, map and flag. Samoa - Background Notes - A good profile, including political history, from the State Department.

36. ASSAILED BY THE CYCLONE: NI 222 - Country Profile: Western Samoa the centre of Polynesia’s stilt powerful, hierarchical culture. the CongregationalChurch of samoa, and the (western) illnesses such as heart disease increasing http://www.newint.org/issue222/profile.htm

new internationalist issue 222 - August 1991 Western Samoa enjoys a relaxed Polynesian lifestyle - albeit not exactly the ‘free love’ nirvana portrayed by anthropologist Margaret Mead - which conceals its earlier fate as a victim of colonial chaos, extravagant even by exotic South Pacific standards. Predominantly Protestant missions were established in the last century, before traders arrived. Then the arrival of traders, chiefly British, German and American, in stem competition coincided with a recurrence of traditional tribal conflicts. The traders persuaded their respective consuls to side with different high chiefs, and in 1889 seven warships from three navies lay anchored in the harbour of the capital, Apia. Six were sunk or damaged in a cyclone, epitomising the apparently providential nature of the cause of a free Samoa. Finally, though, Germany annexed the west, the USA the east (still a US territory), and Britain sailed away - leaving the writer R. L. Stevenson, who had migrated there for his health and is buried on a hill overlooking Apia bay. New Zealand took Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War One. Samoan nationalism was most strongly manifested in the Mau movement in the 1920s, finally violently suppressed. The country became independent in January 1962, since when it has been ruled by its

37. South Pacific Books 5. samoa; (western) and American samoa Travel Survival 13. Tungaru Traditions Writingson the Atoll culture of the Gilbert Islands (Pacific Islands http://www.less-stress.com/travel/ussoupac.htm

38. Western Samoa Just in (western) samoa All categories. World East Asia (western) samoa. Arts;Business; Computing; culture; Dining; Entertainment; Lifestyle; Local Links;Media; http://www.flightsource.net/html/world_east_asia_western_samoa.html

39. The People Of Samoa By Samoa Koria - Human & Civil Rights / In Motion Magazine This fundamental premise is what keeps our culture and language alive today to However,(western) samoa is also very similar with the election of state officials http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pi.html

The People of Samoa by Samoa Koria, San Diego, California In 1995, the Pacific Islander community of San Diego held its first major community festival - more than 60,000 people came to the two-day festival, July 22nd and 23rd. Organizing to overcome a perceived inviability of Pacific Islander people in San Diego, Chamorros, people of the Cook Islands, Fijians, Guamanians, Hawaiians, Maoris, people of the Marianas, Marshallese, people of the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoans, the Tokelau, Tongans, and others came together to put on this historic event. With the theme of Hokule'a-Ho'oku'i I Ka Pakipika (Bridging the Pacific), the festival was a vivid expression of the Pacific Islander people's history, culture, arts, crafts and cooking. Central to the festival was the visit to San Diego of the Hokule'a ship (photo above) - a symbol of exploration among Pacific Islanders. The festival received a lot of support in San Diego city and county and has lead to steps towards Pacific Islander empowerment including the establishment of various new organizations and the placing of Pacific Islanders on city and county commissions. After the success of this first festival the planning of the second festival is well under way. The following article about the Samoan people was written by Samoa Koria a member of the education committee of the 1995 festival and was chair of the 1996 festival.

40. Western Samoa Quick Facts And Practical Information - Downunder And The South Pa 3,000 years ago and are accepted as the heart of the Polynesian culture. CLIMATEWestern samoa has a tropical climate with temperatures ranging from 2230 http://www.goway.com/downunder/samoa/samoa_facts.html

Home Why Goway Travel Ideas Groups/Clubs ... Travel Agents The Way To Go Travelling Since 1970 Updates Every Weekday Select a page Africa Index Botswana Egypt Kenya Malta Morocco Namibia Seychelles South Africa Tanzania Tunisia Zambia Zimbabwe Downunder Index Australia Cook Islands Fiji Hawaii New Zealand Papua new Guinea Samoa Tahiti Tonga Orient Asia Index Cambodia China Dubai Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Malaysia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Taiwan Thailand Vietnam SPECIAL DEALS Duo Deals Awesome Oz Exhilarating NZ Wonders Downunder More Wonders Consumer Protection Canadian Insurance Us Insurance Email Policy Privacy Booking Conditions Employment@Goway Feedback@Goway Travel Info Request Downunder Home Western Samoa Home Islands Escapes Home Aggie Grey's 4 days Fun Fact: The famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson brought his family to live on Upolu in 1890 and built a large home in the foothills above Apia, where he spent the last five years of his life. He was affectionately known as 'Tusitala', the storyteller, and he is buried on the crest of Mt Vaea. His home and tomb within the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Reserve can still be seen today. MAJOR CENTRES Although Savaii is the largest island of the Samoan archipelago, the capital Apia is on the more populated island of Upolu, which is also the seat of government and centre of commerce. Savaii is considerably less developed than Upolu, dotted with secluded beaches and crowned in the centre by the 609ft Mt Matavanu, whose eruptions in 1905 caused the people to migrate to neighbouring Upolu.

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