Papers by Matori Yamamoto
Nihon Bunka Jinrui Gakkai Kenkyu Taikai happyo yoshishu, 2012
In the general Polynesian political system chiefly titles are organized on a genealogical princip... more In the general Polynesian political system chiefly titles are organized on a genealogical principle. All the titles in a polity are traced to the senior line through kinship link and are ranked according to their genealogical distance to it ; thus they are integrated into a pyramidal structure of political authority. But, although the Samoan political system is based on the chief system as are other Polynesian societies its titles are not organized' on the same principle. Rather, chiefly titles are integrated on territorial bases, in which each title is・ somehow related to others. In order to analyze the traditional political system of Samoan society it is important to examine tenitorial organiZation, which has been highly developed in Samoa as basis for the integration,of chifly titles. This paper examines in detail a particular territorial organization of a small district, Faleata, located on the north coast of Upolu Island,.Western Samoa, in order to analyze the manner in whi...
Jcas連携研究成果報告, Dec 26, 2003
Nihon Bunka Jinrui Gakkai Kenkyu Taikai happyo yoshishu, 2018
Nihon Bunka Jinrui Gakkai Kenkyu Taikai happyo yoshishu, 2015
The aim of this paper is to examine one of the divided nations, the Samoas in the Pacific. The Sa... more The aim of this paper is to examine one of the divided nations, the Samoas in the Pacific. The Samoan Archipelago is divided into two microstates: Western Samoa, an independent country; and American Samoa, a US territory. Although they recognize themselves as a nation, they are not interested in unification at all. Although the separation has created differences in their modern administrative organizations, their educational systems, and their degrees of modernization, the main reason for their different attitudes toward unification lies in the realistpolitics (Realpolitik) of the microstates. In the case of the Samoas nationalism does not provide the power to recover the original united nation. In 1899, the Samoan Archipelago was divided by the metropolitan powers into two territories: American Samoa, a territory of the United States; and German Samoa, which was called Western Samoa after New Zealand took it over from Germany in 1914 and kept that name after independence in 1962, u...
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Papers by Matori Yamamoto