Tonga : land, sea, and people / Tangikina Moimoi Steen & Nancy L. Drescher, editors.
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TextPublication details: Tonga : Tonga Research Association, ©2011.Description: xxxii, 247 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9789829806215
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| PAC 996.12 THO A history of Tonga / | PAC 996.12 TON Tonga's royal family : photographs from royal collections / | PAC 996.12 TON Tonga's royal family : photographs from royal collections / | PAC 996.12 TON Tonga : land, sea, and people / | PAC 996.12 TUI Tonga : fonua 'a kāinga / | PAC 996.12 WOO History and geography of Tonga / | PAC 996.12092 TUP State funeral of His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV : 4th July, 1918 - 10th September, 2006. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
FOREWORD / HRH Princess Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita -- INTRODUCTION / Tangikina Moimoi Steen and Nancy L. Drescher -- OPENING ADDRESS FIFTH TONGAN HISTROY CONFERENCE -- Ko Koku Tofi’a = Defining and interpreting Tonga’s cultural heritage / HRH princess Sālote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita -- 1. HISTORY -- The dynastic evolution and functional role of the Tu’i Tonga as Master Shaman / Niel Gunson -- Fekakalaitaki = Working to achieve one’s ends? The Anglican Church and Tongan politics 1899 to 1913 / Stephen Donald -- A history policy for Tonga / I. C. Campbell -- Cook’s observatory at Point Hōleva, 1777 / Wendy Pond -- Missing persons : children in the history of Tonga / Helen Lee -- Contributions of Tupou II to Tongan art and society / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 2. ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY -- An introduction to Tonga’s natural history / Wendy Pond -- Astronomy in Tonga : an astronomical viewpoint / Kik Velt -- Questioning technology : way forward for a more informed Tongan technology community / Tangikina Moimoi Steen -- Mobile phones and the internet : transnational and local networks of second-generation Tongan females in Melbourne, Australia / Makiko Nishitani -- 3. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE -- Ko e loto’i Tonga = A crowning jewel / Mele Ongo’alupe -- Fa’u = Prearranged marriages : the essence of all Tongan creations / Viliami A. Taumoepeau -- Comedy and tragedy in myths, poems and proverbs : a Tā-Vā time-space art and literacy criticism / Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina -- Linguistic means expressing social stratification in Tonga / Svenja Völkel Hartung -- Intellectual property issues and challenges in the work of cultural institutions in the Kingdom of Tonga / Malia Talakai -- Kula and ‘Uli : red and black in Tongan thinking and practice / Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine and Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina -- Comedy, stigma and fakasesele : contesting ‘mental illness’ in Vava’u / Michael Poltorak -- My life in three cultures / Tupou Hopoate.
19 papers from Tonga Research Association conferences.