Tofiga: Place and Belonging in Samoan Architecture
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Refiti, Albert
Engels-Schwarzpaul, Anna Christina
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The German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory
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The Samoan world opens with the notion of nu‘u tofi, in which every person is assigned a place or position that resonates with culture, polity, citizenship and governance. Tofi (or tofiga) places Samoans according to their ancestral connections within the order of the Samoan world, as ‘the reference point of political action and motivation’ (Tui Atua) – for instance, matai (chiefs) sitting in front of the pou (posts) of the fale (house).
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1601 Anthropology, 4401 Anthropology, fa‘a Sāmoa, fale Sāmoa, Samoan architecture, locality and place, mobility and belonging
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Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ISSN: 0044-2666 (Print), 150(1). https://zfejsca.org/ojs/index.php/jsca/issue/view/150-1
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