Abstract
This chapter considers the importance of culture and insider knowledge for research and practice in psychology with Pacific people from a Samoan perspective that is contextualised in relation to scholars from other Pacific nations. This chapter also responds to the fact that Pacific peoples have always been explorers and people on the move. As such, the primary focus is on how Samoan cultural understandings and practices are influencing research and practice in both Samoa and Aotearoa (the Indigenous name for New Zealand). Emphasis in this chapter is also placed on the fabric of the knowledge traditions of Fa'aSamoa (Samoan Indigenous cultural knowledge) that resides within the Samoan language, heritage, customs, and beliefs that people carry with them. This chapter should also be seen in the context of a Pacific-Indigenous researcher paradigm, which champions the need to consider different cultural approaches to research, and which has ignited exploration of re-theorising within the 'practice' of psychology.