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Albert Refiti

Thesis

Mavae and Tofiga: spatial exposition of the Samoan cosmogony and architecture


How is space constituted and made manifest in the cultural and philosophical context of Samoan society? And how can a primordial concept of space be constituted in the architecture of the fale (house) and then reconstituted as a cultural phenomenon, stretching from pre-contact times in Samoa to the present, in the diaspora? This study undertakes...

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