Malama Meleisea
Biographic Data
| ID | 225550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malama Meleisea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malama |
| FAMILY NAME | Meleisea |
| SIGNATURE | MELEISEA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Samoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts
Three controversial bills were tabled in Sāmoa’s parliament in February 2020 and became law on 5 January 2021. The new legislation removed the Land and Titles Court from provisions in the Constitution of Sāmoa for protection of individual rights, on the grounds that constitutional provisions for individual rights were incompatible with Sāmoan collective rights. In this article we discuss the background to the controversial constitutional amendmen…
Utu
The Sāmoa Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Database was begun in 2016 as an ongoing means of encouraging and assisting more archaeological research in Sāmoa. It is also building a stronger engagement between the Archaeology and Cultural Heritage research and teaching programme at the Centre for Sāmoan Studies at the National University with government agencies here, and is contributing to the still incomplete processes of preparing heritage prot…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Forty-Five Years of Pacific Island Studies
Looking back on our own times, we have seen a rise and fall of interest in Pacific Island studies. Our careers, which have led us currently to the Centre for Samoa Studies at the National University of Samoa, retrospectively illustrate transformations in Pacific Studies over the past half century
The work of the dead in Samoa
In Samoa the selection of burial sites and the type of monuments chosen to mark them not only signify affection and memorialisation, but also make visible statements about traditional rank, and nowadays about family status and claims to property. We examine what is known about burial practices and locations in pre-colonial Samoa and trace the changes that have occurred as a result of 19th-century power struggles, political change, colonial influe…
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
1. Contending approaches 2. Settling the region 3. Pacific Edens? 4. Discovering outsiders 5. Land, labour and independence 6. New political orders 7. Land, labour and dependency 8. Invention of the native 9. The war in the Pacific 10. A nuclear Pacific 11. The material world re-made 12. The ideological world re-made 13. The end of insularity
Higher education in the pacific islands
Margaret mead, derek freeman and samoa
A propos du livre de D. Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, centre sur la pertinence du paradigme analytique que le travail de M. Mead met au premier plan
The last days of the Melanesian labour trade in Western Samoa
Margaret mead, derek freeman and samoa
A propos du livre de D. Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, centre sur la pertinence du paradigme analytique que le travail de M. Mead met au premier plan
The last days of the Melanesian labour trade in Western Samoa
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts
Three controversial bills were tabled in Sāmoa’s parliament in February 2020 and became law on 5 January 2021. The new legislation removed the Land and Titles Court from provisions in the Constitution of Sāmoa for protection of individual rights, on the grounds that constitutional provisions for individual rights were incompatible with Sāmoan collective rights. In this article we discuss the background to the controversial constitutional amendmen…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
The work of the dead in Samoa
In Samoa the selection of burial sites and the type of monuments chosen to mark them not only signify affection and memorialisation, but also make visible statements about traditional rank, and nowadays about family status and claims to property. We examine what is known about burial practices and locations in pre-colonial Samoa and trace the changes that have occurred as a result of 19th-century power struggles, political change, colonial influe…
Higher education in the pacific islands
The last days of the Melanesian labour trade in Western Samoa
Margaret mead, derek freeman and samoa
A propos du livre de D. Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, centre sur la pertinence du paradigme analytique que le travail de M. Mead met au premier plan
Higher education in the pacific islands
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
1. Contending approaches 2. Settling the region 3. Pacific Edens? 4. Discovering outsiders 5. Land, labour and independence 6. New political orders 7. Land, labour and dependency 8. Invention of the native 9. The war in the Pacific 10. A nuclear Pacific 11. The material world re-made 12. The ideological world re-made 13. The end of insularity
The work of the dead in Samoa
In Samoa the selection of burial sites and the type of monuments chosen to mark them not only signify affection and memorialisation, but also make visible statements about traditional rank, and nowadays about family status and claims to property. We examine what is known about burial practices and locations in pre-colonial Samoa and trace the changes that have occurred as a result of 19th-century power struggles, political change, colonial influe…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Forty-Five Years of Pacific Island Studies
Looking back on our own times, we have seen a rise and fall of interest in Pacific Island studies. Our careers, which have led us currently to the Centre for Samoa Studies at the National University of Samoa, retrospectively illustrate transformations in Pacific Studies over the past half century
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts
Three controversial bills were tabled in Sāmoa’s parliament in February 2020 and became law on 5 January 2021. The new legislation removed the Land and Titles Court from provisions in the Constitution of Sāmoa for protection of individual rights, on the grounds that constitutional provisions for individual rights were incompatible with Sāmoan collective rights. In this article we discuss the background to the controversial constitutional amendmen…
Utu
The Sāmoa Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Database was begun in 2016 as an ongoing means of encouraging and assisting more archaeological research in Sāmoa. It is also building a stronger engagement between the Archaeology and Cultural Heritage research and teaching programme at the Centre for Sāmoan Studies at the National University with government agencies here, and is contributing to the still incomplete processes of preparing heritage prot…
Geography (7 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · History (3 works)