Musu: unwillingness,intractability
Tautala laititi: cheeky; presuming
above one’s age
Faisili: stuck up; desiring to be highest
Aga: self: social conduct; persona
Loto: emotions, feelings
Egocentric/individualistic:
 the person as the property of the
individual
 the individual as
isolated/abstracted from social
context
 inwards orientation
 the body as the boundary of the self
Sociocentric/relational:
 the person as the property of the
collective
 the individual as enmeshed in
social context/relations
 external orientation
 the self not confined to the body
Aspects of constructions of
personhood
 claims about the nature of being
(ontological premise)
 discourses about what people
should be like (moral vocabulary
and moral discourse)
 discourses about how people can
act in different contexts (contextual
discourse)
Samoan notions of the person (at
contact)
 an emphasis on sociocentrism,
respect, service, generosity (the
ontological premise)
 a moral vocabulary and discourse
about selfishness, interiority,
emotionality, disrespect, serving
one’s own interests
 a contextual discourse, consisting
of a division between formal
(hierarchical/ceremonial) contexts
and discourses and informal (nonhierarchical/non-ceremonial/peer
related) contexts and discourses