Or if not thrown out some customs merely change their form. For instance, the feagaiga no longer have the mana they used to enjoy. Instead they have compensated by making their tama tane look like simpletons in the academic and business worlds. Just take a look at the National University of Samoa, for instance. Of the five deans, four are female.
Females also outnumber males among staff and student population.
I am sure this is not the result of a feminist conspiracy, but the signs of the dawn of a new age. The mercurial nature of custom, therefore, poses a serious question because people can sometimes disagree about customary practices. Also about the age of certain customs. This being so, custom is a very fragile creature and becomes custom only because sanctioned by the people in power, for example, the village fono, the government of the day, the courts. In other words custom is a subject for contestation and negotiation.