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The 1st edition PDF is in the public domain. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa.
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.
The outbreak is attributed to Samoa's sharp drop in measles vaccination from the previous year. [17] In 2013, 90% of babies in Samoa received the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination (MMR) at one year of age. [9] On 6 July 2018 on the east coast of Savai'i, two 12-month-old children died after receiving MMR vaccinations. [8]
Sika Anoa'i was born in the village of Leone on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa on April 5, 1945, to Reverend Amituana'i Anoa'i and Tovaleomanaia Ripley, one of thirteen children. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In 1959, at the age of 14, he moved with his family to San Francisco , California in the United States, where his father became pastor of the ...
The Samoan Islands (Samoan: Motu o Sāmoa) are an archipelago covering 3,030 km 2 (1,170 sq mi) in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and of the wider region of Oceania. Administratively , the archipelago comprises all of the Independent State of Samoa and most of American Samoa (apart from Swains Island , which is ...
It provided that children born in the territory to native-born Samoan fathers would automatically derive Samoan nationality. Children previously born abroad to Samoan fathers could declare their desire to be Samoan and take an oath of allegiance within ten months of the effective date of the Ordinance. Persons, born in the territory to non ...
White Sunday (or Children's Sunday) was bought to Samoa in the nineteenth century by the London Missionary Society (LMS). [2] During its annual Conference in May 1898 it was resolved to set up a special Sunday for children, and so the first such White Sunday was held on the last Sunday of June the same year 1898, which was celebrated in all the ...
2.42 children born/woman (2022 est.) Infant mortality rate: ... Demographic features of the population of Samoa include population density, ethnicity, education level