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...lots of cigarettes and candy, and showedus dirty pictures, and asked about some Samoan girls for them.And one of them asked me all about our true Samoan customs,and our religions. And I told him all about "Viliamu," who isJohn Williams...

...significance of the supernatural in Samoan life appear tohave declined dramatically...gods and assumed dominance over Samoan life but did notdisplace all pre-existing...remain a significantinfluence on Samoan life. Evidence of their existence and...

...difficulty.In all the descriptions of Samoan life, one of the points whichmust have...whetherit is due to some genius in the Samoan culture itself, or to fortunateaccident...complete degenera­tion of native life, the loss of native techniques...

...on thenoncompetitive aspects of Samoan social life (Holmes 1957,1958, 1987U...todemonstrate that Mead's account of Samoan culture andcharacter is fundamentally...diminutionof the "darker side of Samoan life" (278)—aggression...

...paired off. Not a man was left over.But the Samoans knew the customs ofthe Tongans.Thus, the Tongans said that theUveans U...onesurvived.13Then the man called by the name Re­monu, the Samoan, descended. Went tocome live on Anuta. He passed on hiswords...