Lāuga – Understanding Samoan oratory toy

Lāuga – Understanding Samoan oratory toyA guide to one of the key practices in Smoan culture by Dr Sadat Muaiava Luga or Smoan oratory is a premier cultural practice in the faasmoa (Smoan culture), a sacred ritual that embodies all that faasmoa represents, such as identity, inheritance, respect, service, gifting, reciprocity and knowledge. Delivered as either luga faamatai (chiefly speeches) or luga faalelotu (sermons), luga is captivating and endowed with knowledge, praxis and skill. Luga

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