Book
Po fananga =: Folk tales of Tonga
Tofua Press • San Diego • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Posesi Fanua, Tupou.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains 11 traditional tales from Tonga plus a tale written by the author. Tupou Posesi Fanua is a Tongan folklorist who holds the position of Researcher of the Tongan Traditions Committee. The tales are those she heard as a child from her grandmother. The text appears in English on pages lettered A and in Tongan on pages lettered B. The author notes that the translation is loose and that the work is 'written for entertainment's sake' rather than as a linguistic study.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Glossary
- Literary texts
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Tupou Posesi Fanua ; ill. by Nick Rott
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74034532
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans