'Univesiti Fakafonua 'a Tonga -
Tonga National University
Ko e Mo’oni, Ko e Totonu mo e Tau’ataina - Truth, Justice, Freedom


Pangai, village in Tonga / by Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; v. 18.Publication details: Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 1941.Description: iv, 145 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.72099612 22
Contents:
THE VILLAGE OF PANGAI -- Location and climate -- The village -- The people -- Contact with whites -- ECONOMIC LIFE -- Control of land -- Division of labour -- The daily routine -- Organization of work ; Housebuilding ; Fishing ; Bark cloth making ; Mat making ; Experts -- Planting and cultivation -- Livestock -- Economic education -- Preparation of food -- Food consumption -- Feasts -- Income and expenditure -- Changes in craft activities -- SOCIAL LIFE -- The household -- Adoption -- Kinship ; Brother and sister ; Father's sister ; Mother's brother ; Kinship reciprocity -- THE LIFE CYCLE -- Pregnancy -- Birth -- Naming -- Puberty -- Courtship -- Marriage ; Cross cousins ; Marriage ceremony ; Elopement -- Death ; Death of children -- Medicine -- Kava drinking ; Crime -- Religion ; Church support ; Sunday school ; The lay preacher -- Conclusion.
Summary: "This monograph is the result of a two-month visit to Tonga during the summer of 1938-39 Some seven weeks of this time were spent in the village of Pangai, Vava'u."--Preface.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

THE VILLAGE OF PANGAI -- Location and climate -- The village -- The people -- Contact with whites -- ECONOMIC LIFE -- Control of land -- Division of labour -- The daily routine -- Organization of work ; Housebuilding ; Fishing ; Bark cloth making ; Mat making ; Experts -- Planting and cultivation -- Livestock -- Economic education -- Preparation of food -- Food consumption -- Feasts -- Income and expenditure -- Changes in craft activities -- SOCIAL LIFE -- The household -- Adoption -- Kinship ; Brother and sister ; Father's sister ; Mother's brother ; Kinship reciprocity -- THE LIFE CYCLE -- Pregnancy -- Birth -- Naming -- Puberty -- Courtship -- Marriage ; Cross cousins ; Marriage ceremony ; Elopement -- Death ; Death of children -- Medicine -- Kava drinking ; Crime -- Religion ; Church support ; Sunday school ; The lay preacher -- Conclusion.

Bagnall, B465

"This monograph is the result of a two-month visit to Tonga during the summer of 1938-39 Some seven weeks of this time were spent in the village of Pangai, Vava'u."--Preface.

TNU: The library's copy is a photocopy.

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