Early Tonga : as the explorers saw it 1616-1810 / Edwin N. Ferdon.

By:

Ferdon, Edwin N, 1913-2002

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0816510261
9780816510269

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306/.0996/12 19

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 306.099612 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		FEAH25010082
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 306.099612 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	library's copy is a photocopy	FEAH24110082

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-331) and index.

"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.