Pacific Collection

Samoan Women

by Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

Educators, a statistician, NGO workers, a doctor, a lawyer, government workers, and consultants discuss formal and informal aspects of education, employment, health, law, and religion. Their analysis of economic participation includes labour and remuneration through the factory, field, mill, and village. Their examination of people’s welfare encompasses adolescence, reproduction, life-style diseases, traditional medicine, AIDS, old age, and suicide. Their review of education covers gender statistics, enrollments, examination rates, participation by women in the education workforce, distance education, the legal profession, theological education, and networking.  This volume presents new, rich data on Samoan society by its most up-and-coming workforce, its women. Contemporary Samoan society cannot be analysed without this book.

Publisher: IPS- University of The South Pacific (1984)
ISBN-10: 9820203600
Paperback: 161 pages
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Tamatiai Samoa - O a Latou Tala

by Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

O a Latou Tala – In Samoan Language.

Publisher: IPS- University of The South Pacific (1984)
ISBN-10: B0CCLSQDK9
Paperback: 168 pages
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Saili Matagi: Samoan Migrants in Australia

by Leulu Felise Va'a

The fa’a-Samoa is not just a system of beliefs, ideas, values, and practices: it is also a process. It is situated in many different countries and communities simultaneously, and it is strong among migrant communities. It is not immutable, for it is ever subject to change both in Samoa and in receiving countries. Saili Matagi is an exploration of the practice of fa’a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of tradition within their communities, and of the search for opportunities in new environments. Saili Matagi is set in contexts of not only of Samoan history and social organization, but also international migration. The Christian church and the fa’a-Samoa have become inseparably linked; thus, Va’a explores the history and role of the Lotu, establishment and characteristics of Samoan churches in Sydney and membership in the Canterbury-Bankstown church.

Publisher: IPS- University of The South Pacific (1984)
ISBN-13: 978-9820203259
Paperback: 298 pages
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Apem Moa Solomon Islands Leadership

by Kabini F. Sanga

Apem Moa (Pijin for ‘raise the bar’, say the authors) has been written by two education faculty academics, one a Solomon Islander now living in New Zealand and the other a Canadian. Sanga, a former director of the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, recently completed his PhD under Walker, a leadership specialist. Their book is a leadership education course text suited to group training or self-teaching. Its chapters run through a comprehensive range of leadership topics: current challenges, authority and influence, ethical principles and constraints, conscience, convictions, leadership development and responsibilities. The book’s introduction points to a crisis in leadership as a root cause of the Solomons crisis of 1998–2003 and frames the book as a practical answer to ‘the need to mobilise leadership at all levels.

Publisher: Victoria University (2005)
ISBN-13: 978-0475122261
Paperback: 175 pages
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Traditional Architecture in Vanuatu

by Christian Coiffier

This book is particularly aimed for young people who will have to take the responsibility choosing between different ways of development in the different regions of Vanuatu. It is common in the pacific to compare tradition and custom with modern ways. But what does custom in Vanuatu represent.

Publisher: IPS- University of The South Pacific (1988)
ISBN-13: 978-9820200470
Paperback: 189 pages
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Across the Kalapani

by Sunita Narayan

This book is a chronicle of colonial treachery of how the Indians (mostly from North India) were promised a pleasant life in the Pacific and were transported to work in the sugar cane plantations in Fiji.  The Indentured Labour System – invented and enforced by the British Administration was a trickery agreement that recruited approximately 60500 Indians between 1879 – 1920, their last arrival, to be slaved in a promised paradise.  Their living and working conditions were so atrocious with the long hours of work, assaults, social breakdowns and even worse – the ill-treatment of women that tore their hearts apart. The testimony of Narayan is an awakening call to all, especially the descendants of the “Girmitiyas” and the coming generations to recapture the sight of the Indian Diaspora and their heritage.

Publisher: Pacific Studies Press (2022)
ISBN-10: 978 982 101 253 9
Paperback: 166 pages
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Fiji Ka Hindi Saheetya

by Subashni L. Kumar, Shyamla Chand

This book depicts the origins of the Fiji Hindi dialects.

Publisher: PTC Press
ISBN-13: 978 982 101 425 0
Paperback: 325 pages
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond - Pacific Universities Women Academics’ Narratives from the Field

by Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, Shikha Raturi

At the time of writing, these authors-women academics from Fiji/Pacific, were going through the impact of the phenomenon of the pandemic on their work and life. The stories penned here of their experiences of the pandemic are slices of life so to speak of the phenomenon that may remain with us for some time. The experiences described herein are both personal as well as communal, stressful as well as lethargic depending on how individual authors have chosen to focus their story.

Publisher: PTC Press
ISBN-13: 978-982-101-614-8
Paperback: 391 pages
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