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Malosi: An Exploration of the Mead/Freeman Controversy and of Samoan Aggression
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Malosi: An Exploration of the Mead/Freeman Controversy and of Samoan Aggression

Jeannette Marie Mageo
Pacific Studies, Vol.11(2), pp.25-65
1988
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/5730
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Abstract

Psychological anthropology Aggressiveness--Social aspects Samoa
This article's intent is to take a step toward clarifying the nature and the place of aggression in Samoan social life. Aggression has always had a focal place in Samoan culture. In pre-Christian times, Nafanua was the only divinity who was worshiped throughout the Samoan islands (Stair 1897:220). Nafanua was a war goddess.

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