Early Tonga : as the explorers saw it 1616-1810 /
Ferdon, Edwin N., 1913-2002.
Early Tonga : as the explorers saw it 1616-1810 / Edwin N. Ferdon. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1987. - xv, 339 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-331) and index.
Tongans & their dwellings -- Social organisation & government -- Kava : drink for all occasions -- Religion -- Daily life -- From birth to death -- Recreation -- Quest for food -- Trade & transportation -- War & peace.
"Ethnographic observations and experiences on the Tongan islands up to 1810 -- just prior to intensive Christian missionary activities -- provide an early historic baseline of culture for those interested in later culture change in Tonga, the only Polynesian island group that has never been ruled by outsiders. Ferdon ... [provides an] account of major aspects of Tongan life -- material culture, government, food and drink, recreation, customs, trade, and warfare -- at the time when European influences were only beginning to modify traditional island patterns"--Dust cover.
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Ethnology--Tonga.
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Early Tonga : as the explorers saw it 1616-1810 / Edwin N. Ferdon. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1987. - xv, 339 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-331) and index.
Tongans & their dwellings -- Social organisation & government -- Kava : drink for all occasions -- Religion -- Daily life -- From birth to death -- Recreation -- Quest for food -- Trade & transportation -- War & peace.
"Ethnographic observations and experiences on the Tongan islands up to 1810 -- just prior to intensive Christian missionary activities -- provide an early historic baseline of culture for those interested in later culture change in Tonga, the only Polynesian island group that has never been ruled by outsiders. Ferdon ... [provides an] account of major aspects of Tongan life -- material culture, government, food and drink, recreation, customs, trade, and warfare -- at the time when European influences were only beginning to modify traditional island patterns"--Dust cover.
0816510261 9780816510269
2015413755
009115087 Uk 007418413 Uk
Ethnology--Tonga.
Tonga--Social life and customs.
306/.0996/12