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Tofā Sauni
Tofā Maunu Sauni (c. 1820s-1900s) held the Samoan orator chief title of Sauni for Tufulele, Upolu, Samoa, by the 1890s. He was the chief Samoan advisor to German ethnologist Dr Augustin Kraemer Augustin Friedrich Kraemer or Krämer (27 August 1865 – 11 November 1941) was a German naturalist and ethnographer. Kraemer was a navy surgeon who worked in the Polynesia in 1893–95 and 1897–99. Research Kraemer wrote the Palau sections of ... in Kraemer’s monumental study of Samoa, ''The Samoan Islands'' (vols 1-2, 1901 & 1903). The German medical doctor turned ethnologist regarded Sauni as his ‘best teacher’ and ‘unshakable friend.’ According to Kraemer, Sauni was ‘generally looked upon by other Samoans as one of the wisest men among them.’The Devil's Handwriting: Pre-Coloniality and the German State in Quingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (pp. 310-311). George Steinmetz. University of Chicago Press, 2007. Tofā Sauni also helped German scholar Dr Oskar Stübel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustin Kraemer
Augustin Friedrich Kraemer or Krämer (27 August 1865 – 11 November 1941) was a German naturalist and ethnographer. Kraemer was a navy surgeon who worked in the Polynesia in 1893–95 and 1897–99. Research Kraemer wrote the Palau sections of Georg Thilenius five-volume ethnographic documentation of the Hamburg Südsee Expedition, which sailed through Micronesia Micronesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of about 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: the Philippines to the west, Polynesia to the east, and ... to record the island peoples and their way of life during the early 1900s (''Palau, Ergebnissse der Südsee-Expedition, herausgegeben von Dr G. Thilenius'' 1926, Hamburg). His second voyage is described in ''Hawaii, Ostmikronesien und Samoa. Meine zweite Südseereise'' (1897–1899) ''zum Studium der Atolle und ihrer Bewohner'' published in Stuttgart by Strecker & Schr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |