book chapter
A voyage round the world, in His Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5
B. White [etc.] • London • Published In 1777 • Pages:
By: Forster, Georg, Forester, Johann Reinhold.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains an account of Captain Cook's visit to Tonga during the first week of October 1773 and, therefore, is one of the earliest descriptions of Tonga. Contact was made with Tongans on Eua (called Ea-Oowhe or Middleburg Island in the source) and Tongatapu (called Tonga-Tabboo or Amsterdam Island). The author provides excellent descriptions of Tongan material culture items, Tongan settlements, and land use, and provides information on the British relations with the Tongans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Observation in research
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External trade
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- External relations
- 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.
- Traveler
- 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
- 1773
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1773
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Islands of Tongatapu and Eua, Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- George Forster
- Forester's account of the visit to Tonga has been retyped and repaginated because of the illegibility of the original, but spelling peculiarities and inconsistencies have been retained in the HRAF manuscript.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05034851
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans