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TIME, SPACE, AND CULTURE: A NEW TĀ-VĀ THEORY OF MOANA ANTHROPOLOGY
Get PDFThis paper is primarily concerned with the formulation of a tā-vā theory of Moana anthropology. It does so by investigating the narrower conflicting formal and substantial relationships between Moana cultures as a form of social activity and Moana anthropology as a type of disciplinary practice in the broader complex interplay of temporality and spatiality. As a way forward, the paper calls into question the Moana phenomenon, exploring the formality, substantiality, and functionality of things within and across nature, mind and society, in the wider context of the tā-vā theory of reality. On this philosophical basis, the formulation of a tā-vā theory of Moana anthropology must be brought to bear on its formal and substantial affiliations with Moana cultures, whereby real intellectual and ethnographical unity is theoretically and practically established between them, thereby bringing the logicality of the mutually symbiotic coexistence of mind and reality into a common critical focus
SAMOAN CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF TĀ-VĀ
Get PDFThis study examines the historical development and cultural significance of tā (time) and vā (space) concepts across Polynesian societies, with particular emphasis on Samoan cultural frameworks
TATAU: SYMMETRY, HARMONY, AND BEAUTY IN THE ART OF SĒMISI FETOKAI POTAUAINE
Get PDFTatau: Symmetry, Harmony, and Beauty in the Art of Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine is generally informed by the tā-vā (time-space) theory of art and Tongan ethnography. This paper will look specifically at the body of works created by Potauaine for his exhibition Tatau: Fenāpasi ‘oe Fepaki / Tatau: Symmetry, Harmony, and Beauty held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, from July to October 2010. This exhibition and its associated catalog of which I was cocurator and coeditor, respectively, included ten multimedia works ranging from tufunga tākupesi (graphic designing), tufunga tātongitongi (sculpture), and tufunga tākohikupesi (sculptural drawings). Potauaine’s creative process involves the mediation of kohi–vā (line–space) intersections. This process is a result of using the concept and practice of tatau (symmetry) as an artistic device-creating works of art that possesses potupotutatau (harmony) and faka‘ofo‘ofa (beauty)
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