Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery, Bradd Shore's 1982 ethnography from Columbia University Press, is a scholarly study of a Samoan village's social and religious life, built around Shore's own extended fieldwork there. Its strength is sustained direct ethnographic engagement with the community it describes, published by a major academic press. Its limit is that it is a study of one specific village at one historical moment; broader claims about Samoan religion generally should draw on wider comparative scholarship as well.
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Bradd Shore's Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery, Columbia University Press, 1982, the top tier reflecting sustained direct ethnographic engagement with the community it describes, built around Shore's own extended fieldwork, published by a major academic press. Its limit is that it is a study of one specific village at one historical moment; broader claims about Samoan religion generally should draw on wider comparative scholarship. NotesEthnographic study of a Samoan village and its social and religious life, Columbia University Press, 1982.
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AuthorBradd Shore
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication Year1982
Source TypeEthnography
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Cultures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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