TIME, SPACE, AND CULTURE: A NEW TĀ-VĀ THEORY OF MOANA ANTHROPOLOGY

Authors

Hūfanga, ‘Ōkusitino Māhina, Moana University of Technology and Vava‘u Academy for Critical Inquiry and Applied ResearchFollow

Abstract

This 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.

Recommended Citation

Māhina, Hūfanga, ‘Ōkusitino (2017) "TIME, SPACE, AND CULTURE: A NEW TĀ-VĀ THEORY OF MOANA ANTHROPOLOGY," Pacific Studies Journal: Vol. 40: No. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalcollections.byuh.edu/pacific-studies-journal/vol40/iss1/6