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Samoan proverbial expressions = Alagā'upu fa'a - Samoa / collected, translated and explained by E. Schultz ; translated into English by Brother Herman.

Title
Samoan proverbial expressions = Alagā'upu fa'a - Samoa / collected, translated and explained by E. Schultz ; translated into English by Brother Herman.
Author
Schultz, E. (Erich), 1870-1935
Publication
Auckland, N.Z. : Polynesian Press ; Suva : University of the South Pacific. Institute for Pacific Studies, 1980

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Additional Authors
  • University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies
  • Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Description
140 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
In the field of rhetoric the Samoans have shown both skill and artistry. The most frequently used and best beloved embellishment of the language to which the orator resorts, is the muagagana or alaga'upu. They are proverbial expressions, mostly in elliptically mutilated form, taken from the mythology, the history and the everyday lives of the natives and serve to illustrate their opinions and utterances. Both words are similar in meaning, but differ in so far as the alaga'upu points towards the existence of a story from which the proverb originates (o le tala e ala ai le upu). Muagagana (from mua, first, excellent and gagana, language, speech) could be translated: embellishment of the language, elevated style.-- Collected, translated and explained by DR. E. SCHULTZ, Judge of the High Court, Apia, 1906.Translated into English by BROTHER HERMAN, Leone Boys' School, American Samoa, 1945.
Uniform Title
Sprichtwortliche Redensarten der Samoaner. English.
Alternative Title
  • Sprichtwortliche Redensarten der Samoaner.
  • Proverbial expressions of the Samoans.
  • Proverbial expressions of the Samoans
Subject
  • Proverbs, Samoan
  • Samoan language
  • Samoans > Social life and customs
Note
  • English and Samoan
  • Translation of: Sprichtwortliche Redensarten der Samoaner.
  • Former title: Proverbial expressions of the Samoans.
  • First published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, v. 58-59.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Fishing -- Hunting -- Manual work inside and outside the house -- Food and its preparation -- Games, dances and feasts -- Land and sea travel -- Miscellaneous.
ISBN
0908597010
OCLC
  • 7637290
  • SCSB-11584847
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library