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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 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 in his studies of the traditions of Samoa a decade or so before Kraemer. Sauni was known to Stübel as Maunu, of Leulumoega. References Samoan chiefs ... [...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 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 & Schröder, 1906. His extensive study of Samoan culture contained in ''Die Samoa Inseln'' (1903) is revered by the modern Samoans because of the detailed genealogies, village honorifics (fa'alupega), and details of chiefly rhetoric he included. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |