Title: Tuiavii or Scheurman's way?
Product review: I read this book long ago, as a teenager. Back then it already seemed to me that what I was reading were not the words of a Samoan chief, but of Scheurman himslef using the chief as a mouthpiece for his criticism of civilization. If you examine it closely, you will even be reminded of Gulliver's Travels by satirist Jonathan Swift. Reading it again now, my impression is still the same. As is the case with another famous "Noble Savage" discourse (Chief Seattle's), "Tuiavii's Way" is almost certainly the work of a Western critic of civilization rather than a non-Western perspective.
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