Su'esu'e Manogi : In Search of Fragrance
Subtitle: Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta Isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781775502968
Subjects: Values; Ethnology; Oceania, social life and customs; Oceania, history
Description: This book is a celebration of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi's intellectual and cultural legacy to Samoa, providing Tui Atua's writings and thoughts on Samoan indigenous knowledge. It was first compiled and published as a festschrift in commemoration of his seventiethbirthday. Tui Atua is Samoa'sHead of State and is currently the only holder of one of Samoa's four pāpā (aristocratic chiefly) titles --Tui Atua. The book also contains responses fromfourteenof Samoa's leading and emerging scholars (including two Rhodes Scholars), based within and outside Samoa. The book searches for the best of what His Highness terms 'the Samoan indigenous reference' and enlarges our contemporary understandings of indigenous knowledge.