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    Fa'aSamoa: An Afro-Oceanic Understanding of Epistemology through Folktales and Oral History

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2017
    Author
    Lefao, Maya Taliilagi
    Advisor
    Mazama, Ama, 1961-
    Committee member
    Nehusi, Kimani S. K.
    Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942-
    Department
    African American Studies
    Subject
    African American Studies
    History of Oceania
    Ethnic Studies
    Afro-oceanic
    Fa'asamoa
    Lefao
    Oceania
    Pacific Islander
    Samoa
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1715
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1697
    Abstract
    Often disconnected from the African diaspora, the Black South Pacific is constantly laid to the wayside. My research works to shed light on the voices of Afro-Oceanic scholars who are fully capable of articulating their own narratives based on their traditional foundational knowledge that may not align with standard western notions of knowledge but in fact create a system or methods of knowledge unique to the Afro-Oceanic community and traditions. The indigenous Afro-Oceanic agenda of self-determination, indigenous rights and sovereignty, integrity, spiritual healing, reconciliation and humble morality, builds capacity towards a systematic change and re-acknowledgement of indigenous Afro-Oceanic epistemologies. By identifying and analyzing indigenous Oceanic epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmologies, my research seeks to place Afro-Oceanic peoples within the broader African Diaspora. Scholars throughout Afro-Oceania such as Dr. A.M Tupuola, Dr. Vaioleti T.M, and Dr. Helu-Thaman inter
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