Heart — relational wellbeing
care, kinship, and felt vitality
The heart region represents relational care and felt wellbeing in the comparative healing-body display. It is a culturally cautious visual anchor rather than a claim that Samoan or Tongan medical traditions share one heart-soul anatomy.
Point 2 of 5 in Samoan/Tongan Healing Body
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Claire D. F. Parsons, ed., Healing Practices in the South Pacific (scholarly_modern)
The collection includes separate studies of Samoan medicine and Tongan healing practices; it is used here as a comparative source while preserving island-level variation.
Cluny Macpherson, Samoan medicine (secondary)
A focused account of Samoan medicine within the comparative South Pacific collection; used to avoid treating Tongan evidence as a proxy for Samoa.