Samoan death rituals in a New Zealand context

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Samoan death rituals in a New Zealand context

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Given that dialogue relating to death and grief for many Samoans still remains in the realm of tapu (sacred) or s? (protected), few attempts have been made by researchers of Samoan heritage to understand whether the cultural contexts for enacting associated rituals might also provide avenues for healing. Psychological scholarship on recovery following death, particularly among men, is largely based on dominant western perspectives that continue to privilege both clinical and ethnocentric pers...

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Research Paper

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Journal article

Date created

2017

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Seiuli, Byron Malaela Sotiata

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11142

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Samoan death rituals / Trauma recovery / Fa'asamoa

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