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Micah G . Van der Ryn (Ph.D)

American Samoa Community College, Community and Natural Resources, Faculty Member

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Fepulea'i Micah Van der Ryn (Ph.D.) is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and Health Communications Specialist working to further cross-cultural understanding and appreciation and restore ecological balance, health, healing, and harmony. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Auckland, a Master in Visual Anthropology (MAVA) from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz (double major in Anthropology and Environmental Studies with Highest Honors). Dr. Van der Ryn was an ethnographic and media specialist at American Samoa Community College's (ASCC) Samoan Studies Institute (SSI) for seventeen years, where he trained students in ethnography and video production and produced films to support Samoan and other Pacific Islander cultural heritage preservation and education. In this context, he was responsible for establishing ASCC'S Ethnographic Media laboratory and archive at SSI, facilitating the distribution of these videos into local classrooms and broadcast on local television, and obtaining grant funds to promote these efforts. Subsequently, Dr. Van der Ryn became a researcher at ASCC's Division of Community and Natural Resources, establishing and developing its Health Communications Research and Media Program (HCRM) where he developed, tested, and piloted evidence-based, culturally appropriate social marketing media interventions to effectively address the epidemic of non-communicable, "lifestyle" related diseases, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, in American Samoa. In 2019 Micah took early retirement from ASCC to move back with his Samoan family to California to help care for his parents and family property. He is now available as a consultant, teacher, and filmmaker to develop projects related to his professional interests and expertise.
Address: P.O. Box 389, Inverness, California, United States of America

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Art Photography in Samoa: ‘Outsiders’ View of the Past & ‘Insiders’ View of the Present.

This documentary follows Samoan students in a photography course at American Samoa Community Coll... more This documentary follows Samoan students in a photography course at American Samoa Community College as they carry out their course assignment, which is to: a) examine historical photos of Samoa taken a century ago by outsiders; b) comment on how they feel and what they think about those photographs; c) go out to take photographs representing how they, as 'insiders', wish to depict places and life in American Samoa today; and d) explain why they took those photographs, what these photographs mean to them. Their teacher, Regina Meredith. also reflects on the students' work and the course itself.

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Muliava, Nu'u o Manu, Rose Atoll: A Heritage to Preserve. Director of Photography, script writer, editor – Micah Van der Ryn 2012

This documentary, produced under the auspices of The Samoan Studies Institute, at American Samoa ... more This documentary, produced under the auspices of The Samoan Studies Institute, at American Samoa Community College, in collaboration with The American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife, with funding support from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was produced to produce a document that tells the story of not only the natural history of Muliava (aka Rose Atoll), a part of the Samoan archipelago belonging to American Samoa, but to tell the no well known story of the important cultural heritage and legacy that is associated between Manu'a and Muliava the eastern most land of Manu'a group in the Samoan archipelago.

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"Life in American Samoa" Episode of "Voice of the Sea". Production of University of Hawaii.

This episode features ethnographer Micah Van der Ryn, at American Samoa Community College sharing... more

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The Health Promotion Placement, Episode #1 of "Alo Faatasi mo se Samoa Malōlōina" (Paddling together for a Healthier Samoa" 10 minutes.

This video depicts an American Samoan family of meager financial resources with small children an... more This video depicts an American Samoan family of meager financial resources with small children and their efforts to live a healthy lifestyle and to teach their children. They introduce the use of a specially designed placemat that promotes six daily healthy habits as a tool to educate their children. American Samoa has one of the worse obesity rates in the world, and child obesity is also a big issue in recent years due to the changing diet with the high consumption of sugary drinks and other unhealthy imported food. The video was broadcast on American Samoa's public television and used in various intervention programs in schools and the WIC (Women, Infant and Children's) Program. A Production of American Samoa Community College, Division of Community and Natural Resources, Health Communications Program, directed by Dr. Micah Van der Ryn.

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Pālolo: The cultural and environmental significance of American Samoa's marine worm.

This video, filmed in American Samoa, focuses on the Palolo and Samoans' annual palolo harvest. ... more This video, filmed in American Samoa, focuses on the Palolo and Samoans' annual palolo harvest. It examines not just its biological background, but also the Samoan ways of harvesting it, and their beliefs and understandings related to the palolo.

Micah Van der Ryn was the production consultant, and anthropologist, as well as one of the two videographers for this production, produced by funded by the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. Producer, Arielle Levine, Director, Fred Ahoia.

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Chief Taituave John Hunkin, A Segment of KCET LIFE & TIMES program.

Micah Van der Ryn, edited this 12 minute compressed version of his 52 minute film, A Chief in Two... more Micah Van der Ryn, edited this 12 minute compressed version of his 52 minute film, A Chief in Two Worlds, to be a segment in KCET's Life & Times Program. (KCET is the PBS station for Central and Southern California). Taituave John Hunkin is a Los Angeles-based Samoan migrant of over 25 years. The film follows his story of migrating to America, his struggles with systems in America, then his wife's extended family chose to bestow their high chieftain title on him. The film follows him back to Samoa for the major bestowal ceremony, documents how the Samoan chieftain system (fa'amatai) works in Samoan villages and examines changes in the chieftain system, including the giving of chieftains to people residing overseas. It then follows him back to his life in Los Angeles, and how he performs his role as a Samoan chief in the Los Angeles Samoan Community.

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Tattooing at the Sacred Center of the Earth: A documentary about the first ever tatau convention in Samoa in 1999. Directed, Shot and Edited by Micah Van der Ryn, Ethnographic and Media Specialist, American Samoa Community College.

This film documents a Samoan National Event, the first ever tattoo convention in Samoa in 1999. M... more This film documents a Samoan National Event, the first ever tattoo convention in Samoa in 1999. Micah Van der Ryn, Ethnographic Specialist, Instructor, and filmmaker at ASCC was sent on assignment to document the five-day event in which tattoo artists and enthusiasts from all over the world converged on Samoa. Indigenous Pacific Island Tattooing, in particular, Samoan tatau, was highlighted, and the convention covered a lot of topics related to tattooing, including identity, culture, cultural appropriation, and the personal versus cultural meanings of tattooing in different countries.

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Gestational Diabetes Screening mo Lou Lumana'i Manuia! 2017, Produced, Directed, shot, and edited by Micah Van der Ryn. 32 minutes. Episode #2 of the Alo Faatasi mo se Samoa Malõlõina Health Communication Series.

Gestational Diabetes is a kind of diabetes that can occur during pregnancy that has been on the r... more Gestational Diabetes is a kind of diabetes that can occur during pregnancy that has been on the rise in American Samoa. There is a lack of knowledge in the general population of American Samoa about this condition and the negative consequences it may have for both the mother, her pregnancy, and the unborn child later in life. This video, a project of the American Samoa Community College, Health Communications Research and Media Program of the Community and Natural Resources Division was produced as an intervention to address and remedy this risk through a narrative film style made culturally appropriate for the primarily Samoan audience. It was piloted and tested with pregnant women in the Prenatal Clinic Waiting room of American Samoa LBJ Hospital in American Samoa.

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Papers by Micah G . Van der Ryn (Ph.D)

The Matai system: A transnational study of Samoa's indigenous system of leadership, status, and prestige and its role within South Central Los Angeles

Knowledge of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among pregnant women in American Samoa

Background: Pregnant women of Pacific Islander ethnicity may be at increased risk of developing G... more Background: Pregnant women of Pacific Islander ethnicity may be at increased risk of developing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Little is known, however, about their knowledge of the condition and its risk factors. Aim: To examine knowledge of GDM among pregnant women in American Samoa. Methods: A cross-sectional study of women attending the prenatal care clinic at the Lyndon B Johnson Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa was completed in 2016. Participants (n=152) completed an 86-item survey to assess knowledge of and attitudes toward GDM. Total knowledge scores and normalized scores for five domains were calculated: (1) general knowledge, (2) risk factors, (3) maternal complications, (4) infant complications, (5) testing and treatment. Multivariable linear regression was used to determine whether demographic characteristics, exposure to prenatal care, or prior/current GDM were associated with knowledge. Results: Mean total knowledge scores were low (25.8 out of 100). Nor...

Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific [Book Review]

Visual Anthropology and Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation in American Samoa

Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 2019

This article describes a pioneering initiative in applied visual anthropology, which was undertak... more This article describes a pioneering initiative in applied visual anthropology, which was undertaken in the 1990s in the United States Territory of American Samoa. In response to the perceived increasing Western media influence in the archipelago, filming skills were developed locally as an Indigenous intervention for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage. In his role at the American Samoa Community College, the author was responsible for training Samoan students in the theory and practice of ethnography and visual anthropology. He collaborated with Samoan colleagues and students to identify and coordinate film projects and events that would contribute to the transmission of aspects of Samoan cultural heritage to the next generation. Through the description of several film projects, this work is conceptualized as an indigenizing anthropology effort towards the continuity of intangible cultural heritage in American Samoa.

Key words: American Samoa, applied visual anthropology, intangible cultural heritage, film.

Contemporary Change in Sāmoan Indigenous Village Architecture: Sociocultural Dynamics and Implications

The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture, 2018

This chapter highlights the integral role that Indigenous Sāmoan architecture plays within Sāmoan... more This chapter highlights the integral role that Indigenous Sāmoan architecture plays within Sāmoan culture and inter-related processes of sociocultural and architectural changes in Sāmoan villages over sixty-years from 1950 to 2010. From high dome-shaped thatch roofs to lower sloped, straight corrugated iron roofs, from open sides to partial or total walls, from round ends to square ends, the author examines both the material, economic, and sociocultural factors driving the changes and their various sociocultural implications. Based on thirty-six months of comprehensive ethnographic fieldwork in villages of both American Sāmoa and independent Sāmoa (primarily between 2004 and 2008), the well-illustrated chapter offers a rich analysis of the ethnographic material to demonstrate how architecture both reflects and shapes sociocultural processes.

Samoan Tā–Vā (Time–Space) Concepts and Practices in Language, Society, and Architecture

Pacific Studies Special Issue. Vol. 40, Nos. 1/2, Laie, HawaiÔi., 2017

This essay gives new insights into indigenous Samoan spatial, temporal, and social concepts as d... more This essay gives new insights into indigenous Samoan spatial, temporal, and social concepts as distinctive aspects of Samoan culture, expressed linguistically, socially , and architecturally in a changing Samoan context. Four Samoan concepts are examined: ((1) mata (the eye and a point of convergence and emanation), (2) tā (strike and a point in time), (3) vā (the interval and relation between points in space or time and society, and (4) tuā‘oi (neighbor and boundary). The general tā-vā theory of reality (Māhina 2008a, 2006b, Ka‘ili 2008) informs the analysis augmented by the theory of point-field spatiality as discussed by Lehman and Herdrich (2002). The analysis develops an understanding of how Samoan language, architecture and socio-spatial and temporal practices express a cultural system through which a sense of order (or harmony) and conflict are produced and addressed in Samoan society.

WHICH WAY IS FRONT: Spatial Orientation Complications in Contemporary Samoan Villages.pdf

Structure and Dynamics, 2016

Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Samoan villages examining Samoan village archi... more Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Samoan villages examining Samoan village architecture and spatial uses, I illuminate the culturalization of space in Samoan villages in terms of the front–back axis, deemed a key orientation in contemporary Samoan social life. The Samoan term for space is vā, defined as the interval or " between-ness " of entities in physical, social, spiritual, ideational and temporal landscapes. I highlight how perceptions of, and actions on, the vā in Samoa are the modus operandi by which relationships, boundaries and balances in Samoa are negotiated and determined, and how the front-back axis informs binary, mutually complementary and interdependent sets of socio-spatial relationships in that system. Central to understanding vā and the front–back axis is its Samoan articulation at different scales—from the architecture of the individual house, to household and whole layouts. This article builds on previous theoretical and ethnographic literature about Samoan space (Shore 1983, 1996, 2014; Allen 1993; Lehman and Herdrich 2002). Informed by both Samoan linguistic and ethnographic evidence and the Whorfian theory of linguistic relativity, the article demonstrates how front–back is primary to a Samoan radial spatial schema, a view that reconfigures Bradd Shore's positing of a separate, sometimes conflicting, Samoan " front–back binary linear " model (Shore 1983, 1996, 2014).

The Measina of Architecture in Samoa: An Examination of the Va in Samoan Architecture and Socio-Cultural Implications of Architectural Changes

Measina a Samoa Conference Proceedings Volume 2 & 3, 2008

Return Migration to American Samoa

Pacific Studies Special Issue. Vol. 35, 2012

Preservation Through Visual Anthropology & Training: Case Study from American Samoa.

Cultural Resource Management Volume 24 No 1, 2001

Book Review by Micah G . Van der Ryn (Ph.D)

MOBILITIES OF RETURN: Pacific Perspectives. Pacific Series. Edited

Pacific Affairs, 2019

Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific

Journal of Polynesian Society, Volume 111, No 3, 2002

Art Photography in Samoa: ‘Outsiders’ View of the Past & ‘Insiders’ View of the Present.

This documentary follows Samoan students in a photography course at American Samoa Community Coll... more This documentary follows Samoan students in a photography course at American Samoa Community College as they carry out their course assignment, which is to: a) examine historical photos of Samoa taken a century ago by outsiders; b) comment on how they feel and what they think about those photographs; c) go out to take photographs representing how they, as 'insiders', wish to depict places and life in American Samoa today; and d) explain why they took those photographs, what these photographs mean to them. Their teacher, Regina Meredith. also reflects on the students' work and the course itself.

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Muliava, Nu'u o Manu, Rose Atoll: A Heritage to Preserve. Director of Photography, script writer, editor – Micah Van der Ryn 2012

This documentary, produced under the auspices of The Samoan Studies Institute, at American Samoa ... more This documentary, produced under the auspices of The Samoan Studies Institute, at American Samoa Community College, in collaboration with The American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife, with funding support from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was produced to produce a document that tells the story of not only the natural history of Muliava (aka Rose Atoll), a part of the Samoan archipelago belonging to American Samoa, but to tell the no well known story of the important cultural heritage and legacy that is associated between Manu'a and Muliava the eastern most land of Manu'a group in the Samoan archipelago.

17 views

"Life in American Samoa" Episode of "Voice of the Sea". Production of University of Hawaii.

This episode features ethnographer Micah Van der Ryn, at American Samoa Community College sharing... more

9 views

The Health Promotion Placement, Episode #1 of "Alo Faatasi mo se Samoa Malōlōina" (Paddling together for a Healthier Samoa" 10 minutes.

This video depicts an American Samoan family of meager financial resources with small children an... more This video depicts an American Samoan family of meager financial resources with small children and their efforts to live a healthy lifestyle and to teach their children. They introduce the use of a specially designed placemat that promotes six daily healthy habits as a tool to educate their children. American Samoa has one of the worse obesity rates in the world, and child obesity is also a big issue in recent years due to the changing diet with the high consumption of sugary drinks and other unhealthy imported food. The video was broadcast on American Samoa's public television and used in various intervention programs in schools and the WIC (Women, Infant and Children's) Program. A Production of American Samoa Community College, Division of Community and Natural Resources, Health Communications Program, directed by Dr. Micah Van der Ryn.

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Pālolo: The cultural and environmental significance of American Samoa's marine worm.

This video, filmed in American Samoa, focuses on the Palolo and Samoans' annual palolo harvest. ... more This video, filmed in American Samoa, focuses on the Palolo and Samoans' annual palolo harvest. It examines not just its biological background, but also the Samoan ways of harvesting it, and their beliefs and understandings related to the palolo.

Micah Van der Ryn was the production consultant, and anthropologist, as well as one of the two videographers for this production, produced by funded by the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. Producer, Arielle Levine, Director, Fred Ahoia.

2 views

Chief Taituave John Hunkin, A Segment of KCET LIFE & TIMES program.

Micah Van der Ryn, edited this 12 minute compressed version of his 52 minute film, A Chief in Two... more Micah Van der Ryn, edited this 12 minute compressed version of his 52 minute film, A Chief in Two Worlds, to be a segment in KCET's Life & Times Program. (KCET is the PBS station for Central and Southern California). Taituave John Hunkin is a Los Angeles-based Samoan migrant of over 25 years. The film follows his story of migrating to America, his struggles with systems in America, then his wife's extended family chose to bestow their high chieftain title on him. The film follows him back to Samoa for the major bestowal ceremony, documents how the Samoan chieftain system (fa'amatai) works in Samoan villages and examines changes in the chieftain system, including the giving of chieftains to people residing overseas. It then follows him back to his life in Los Angeles, and how he performs his role as a Samoan chief in the Los Angeles Samoan Community.

6 views

Tattooing at the Sacred Center of the Earth: A documentary about the first ever tatau convention in Samoa in 1999. Directed, Shot and Edited by Micah Van der Ryn, Ethnographic and Media Specialist, American Samoa Community College.

This film documents a Samoan National Event, the first ever tattoo convention in Samoa in 1999. M... more This film documents a Samoan National Event, the first ever tattoo convention in Samoa in 1999. Micah Van der Ryn, Ethnographic Specialist, Instructor, and filmmaker at ASCC was sent on assignment to document the five-day event in which tattoo artists and enthusiasts from all over the world converged on Samoa. Indigenous Pacific Island Tattooing, in particular, Samoan tatau, was highlighted, and the convention covered a lot of topics related to tattooing, including identity, culture, cultural appropriation, and the personal versus cultural meanings of tattooing in different countries.

55 views

Gestational Diabetes Screening mo Lou Lumana'i Manuia! 2017, Produced, Directed, shot, and edited by Micah Van der Ryn. 32 minutes. Episode #2 of the Alo Faatasi mo se Samoa Malõlõina Health Communication Series.

Gestational Diabetes is a kind of diabetes that can occur during pregnancy that has been on the r... more Gestational Diabetes is a kind of diabetes that can occur during pregnancy that has been on the rise in American Samoa. There is a lack of knowledge in the general population of American Samoa about this condition and the negative consequences it may have for both the mother, her pregnancy, and the unborn child later in life. This video, a project of the American Samoa Community College, Health Communications Research and Media Program of the Community and Natural Resources Division was produced as an intervention to address and remedy this risk through a narrative film style made culturally appropriate for the primarily Samoan audience. It was piloted and tested with pregnant women in the Prenatal Clinic Waiting room of American Samoa LBJ Hospital in American Samoa.

13 views

The Matai system: A transnational study of Samoa's indigenous system of leadership, status, and prestige and its role within South Central Los Angeles

Knowledge of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among pregnant women in American Samoa

Background: Pregnant women of Pacific Islander ethnicity may be at increased risk of developing G... more Background: Pregnant women of Pacific Islander ethnicity may be at increased risk of developing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Little is known, however, about their knowledge of the condition and its risk factors. Aim: To examine knowledge of GDM among pregnant women in American Samoa. Methods: A cross-sectional study of women attending the prenatal care clinic at the Lyndon B Johnson Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa was completed in 2016. Participants (n=152) completed an 86-item survey to assess knowledge of and attitudes toward GDM. Total knowledge scores and normalized scores for five domains were calculated: (1) general knowledge, (2) risk factors, (3) maternal complications, (4) infant complications, (5) testing and treatment. Multivariable linear regression was used to determine whether demographic characteristics, exposure to prenatal care, or prior/current GDM were associated with knowledge. Results: Mean total knowledge scores were low (25.8 out of 100). Nor...

Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific [Book Review]

Visual Anthropology and Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation in American Samoa

Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 2019

This article describes a pioneering initiative in applied visual anthropology, which was undertak... more This article describes a pioneering initiative in applied visual anthropology, which was undertaken in the 1990s in the United States Territory of American Samoa. In response to the perceived increasing Western media influence in the archipelago, filming skills were developed locally as an Indigenous intervention for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage. In his role at the American Samoa Community College, the author was responsible for training Samoan students in the theory and practice of ethnography and visual anthropology. He collaborated with Samoan colleagues and students to identify and coordinate film projects and events that would contribute to the transmission of aspects of Samoan cultural heritage to the next generation. Through the description of several film projects, this work is conceptualized as an indigenizing anthropology effort towards the continuity of intangible cultural heritage in American Samoa.

Key words: American Samoa, applied visual anthropology, intangible cultural heritage, film.

Contemporary Change in Sāmoan Indigenous Village Architecture: Sociocultural Dynamics and Implications

The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture, 2018

This chapter highlights the integral role that Indigenous Sāmoan architecture plays within Sāmoan... more This chapter highlights the integral role that Indigenous Sāmoan architecture plays within Sāmoan culture and inter-related processes of sociocultural and architectural changes in Sāmoan villages over sixty-years from 1950 to 2010. From high dome-shaped thatch roofs to lower sloped, straight corrugated iron roofs, from open sides to partial or total walls, from round ends to square ends, the author examines both the material, economic, and sociocultural factors driving the changes and their various sociocultural implications. Based on thirty-six months of comprehensive ethnographic fieldwork in villages of both American Sāmoa and independent Sāmoa (primarily between 2004 and 2008), the well-illustrated chapter offers a rich analysis of the ethnographic material to demonstrate how architecture both reflects and shapes sociocultural processes.

Samoan Tā–Vā (Time–Space) Concepts and Practices in Language, Society, and Architecture

Pacific Studies Special Issue. Vol. 40, Nos. 1/2, Laie, HawaiÔi., 2017

This essay gives new insights into indigenous Samoan spatial, temporal, and social concepts as d... more This essay gives new insights into indigenous Samoan spatial, temporal, and social concepts as distinctive aspects of Samoan culture, expressed linguistically, socially , and architecturally in a changing Samoan context. Four Samoan concepts are examined: ((1) mata (the eye and a point of convergence and emanation), (2) tā (strike and a point in time), (3) vā (the interval and relation between points in space or time and society, and (4) tuā‘oi (neighbor and boundary). The general tā-vā theory of reality (Māhina 2008a, 2006b, Ka‘ili 2008) informs the analysis augmented by the theory of point-field spatiality as discussed by Lehman and Herdrich (2002). The analysis develops an understanding of how Samoan language, architecture and socio-spatial and temporal practices express a cultural system through which a sense of order (or harmony) and conflict are produced and addressed in Samoan society.

WHICH WAY IS FRONT: Spatial Orientation Complications in Contemporary Samoan Villages.pdf

Structure and Dynamics, 2016

Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Samoan villages examining Samoan village archi... more Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Samoan villages examining Samoan village architecture and spatial uses, I illuminate the culturalization of space in Samoan villages in terms of the front–back axis, deemed a key orientation in contemporary Samoan social life. The Samoan term for space is vā, defined as the interval or " between-ness " of entities in physical, social, spiritual, ideational and temporal landscapes. I highlight how perceptions of, and actions on, the vā in Samoa are the modus operandi by which relationships, boundaries and balances in Samoa are negotiated and determined, and how the front-back axis informs binary, mutually complementary and interdependent sets of socio-spatial relationships in that system. Central to understanding vā and the front–back axis is its Samoan articulation at different scales—from the architecture of the individual house, to household and whole layouts. This article builds on previous theoretical and ethnographic literature about Samoan space (Shore 1983, 1996, 2014; Allen 1993; Lehman and Herdrich 2002). Informed by both Samoan linguistic and ethnographic evidence and the Whorfian theory of linguistic relativity, the article demonstrates how front–back is primary to a Samoan radial spatial schema, a view that reconfigures Bradd Shore's positing of a separate, sometimes conflicting, Samoan " front–back binary linear " model (Shore 1983, 1996, 2014).

The Measina of Architecture in Samoa: An Examination of the Va in Samoan Architecture and Socio-Cultural Implications of Architectural Changes

Measina a Samoa Conference Proceedings Volume 2 & 3, 2008

Return Migration to American Samoa

Pacific Studies Special Issue. Vol. 35, 2012

Preservation Through Visual Anthropology & Training: Case Study from American Samoa.

Cultural Resource Management Volume 24 No 1, 2001

MOBILITIES OF RETURN: Pacific Perspectives. Pacific Series. Edited

Pacific Affairs, 2019

Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific

Journal of Polynesian Society, Volume 111, No 3, 2002

PhD Thesis Abstract, Preface, Contents