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Playing to a new rhythm : an ethnography of female games and sports in the Kingdom of Tonga / by Avigail Morris.

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Morris, Avigail [author.]

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Universiṭat Ben-Guryon ba-Negev

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Tongan Summary language: English, Hebrew Language: English, Tongan, Hebrew Producer: 2001Description: 247 leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

Other title:

Ethnography of female games and sports in the Kingdom of Ṭonga
Hebrew title: Meśaḥḳot lefi ḳetsev ḥadash : etnografyah shel miśḥaḳim u-sporṭ shel nashim be-Mamlekhet Ṭongah

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Dissertation note: Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2001 Summary: "This study examines the role of games and sports in the dynamics between cultural tradition and change in the Kingdom of Tonga. The research focuses on both traditional and modern gender roles in concepts of femininity, particularly in terms of their influence on the local adaptation of western games and sports. The analysis shows how Tongan girls have reinterpreted and modified these activities so that the experience of the game both reflects and reinforces aspects of appropriate female behavior based on the old order and at the same time serves as an "active agency of change" (Turner, 1986). The process of modernization and development, which the Kingdom of Tonga has experienced over the last century, has introduced to many changes in regards to concepts, attitudes and values associated with being a Tongan female. Traditional notions of gender roles and concepts of femininity, which stem from a complex union between traditional chiefly values and those introduced by Christianity, are still regarded by most Tongan females as central to the process of female socialization"--Abstract.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Theses Collection	796.01 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH24090037

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2001

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-247).

"This study examines the role of games and sports in the dynamics between cultural tradition and change in the Kingdom of Tonga. The research focuses on both traditional and modern gender roles in concepts of femininity, particularly in terms of their influence on the local adaptation of western games and sports. The analysis shows how Tongan girls have reinterpreted and modified these activities so that the experience of the game both reflects and reinforces aspects of appropriate female behavior based on the old order and at the same time serves as an "active agency of change" (Turner, 1986). The process of modernization and development, which the Kingdom of Tonga has experienced over the last century, has introduced to many changes in regards to concepts, attitudes and values associated with being a Tongan female. Traditional notions of gender roles and concepts of femininity, which stem from a complex union between traditional chiefly values and those introduced by Christianity, are still regarded by most Tongan females as central to the process of female socialization"--Abstract.

Chiefly in English; some Tongan (Tonga Islands); separate cover title and abstract in Hebrew.