book chapter
Savage Island: an account of a sojourn in Niué and Tonga
J. Murray • London • Published In 1902 • Pages:
By: Thomson, Basil.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a somewhat informal account of the author's role in negotiating the treaty to make Tonga a British protectorate in 1900. As a former minister in the Tongan government, Thomson was returned to try to induce the new king to sign the treaty. The source consists mostly of accounts of meetings with old Tongan friends, his travels around the islands, and the travails of negotiating with the king. He briefly describes the political scene in Tonga as of 1900, gives some information on Tongan ideas on such things as law and justice, and the concepts of female beauty. There is a final chapter on Tongan music. The source provides more in the way of context and character sketches rather than concrete description.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Advisers to the chief executive
- External relations
- Judicial authority
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Military installations
- Disasters
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnoanatomy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin J. Malone; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- April-May 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1777-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Basil C. Thomson
- With music
- The information on the relation between Thomson and the King, and on the negotiations in general, has been indexed for International Relations (648).
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02018440
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans