MANUSCRIPT FIELD NOTES
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Riesenberg, Saul H.
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content: Saul H. Riesenberg papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1956
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-23, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: These notes are arranged alphabetically by subject. Riesenberg took these notes on loose leaf paper while he was studying Samoa (July 1955 to July 1956)

They cover almost every facet of Samoan life: cricket, the fish cannery, the welfare system, the church, the economic structure, etc. Riesenberg was interested in the acculturation of the Samoans, but most of all he was interested in the matai (chief) system of social organization and in the pattern of land titles and land holdings. Notes on these subjects make up the bulk of the material in the "miscellaneous" folders.