Title: Theorizing self in Samoa
First published: 1998
Description: Anthropologist Jeannette Marie Mageo develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa, which provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, and uncovers ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives.
Subjects: Samoans, Social life and customs, Ethnology, Psychology, Self, Personality and culture, Socialization, Ethnology, oceania, Samoan islands, social life and customs
Places: Samoan Islands
LC classification: GN671.S2 M24 1998