Lāuga – Understanding Samoan oratory Wholesale With fold-out images

With fold-out images

From her small studio in Wellington

where she worked closely with Pacific maker communities

and of course

from hatching out of a tiny egg to escaping the jaws of a sperm whale and becoming the world’s biggest invertebrate

Lāuga – Understanding Samoan oratory Wholesale With fold-out imagesA 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