Book
The Tongan agricultural system: with special emphasis on plant assemblages
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Thaman, Randolph R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains detailed data on the Tongan agricultural system and the importance of cultivated and uncultivated plants in the Tongan economy. Much of the data are drawn from the author's fieldwork, which included mapping and surveying of agricultural plots; formal and informal interviewing, market surveys, and secondary research. The work includes: detailed discussions of agricultural practices; and exhaustive inventory of Tongan plant species; quantitative data on the relative importance of various plant species; maps of a number of individual agricultural plots; and a discussion of changes in the agricultural systems. An appendix at the back of the work (p. 377-431) contains an inventory of plant species and their multiple uses and data on agricultural species, food, drink, dyes, woodworking, and numerous other uses of plants.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Inheritance
- Agriculture
- Tillage
- Flora
- Arboriculture
- Ethnobotany
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- 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
- 1967-1969, 1971-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tongatabu, Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- Randolph Robert Thaman
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California, Los Angeles, 1976
- UM 76-8281
- The appendix at the back of the work (p. 377-431) has been indexed for the subject terms FLORA (137) and ETHNOBOTANY (824), but the researcher should be aware that it includes data on agricultural species, food, drink, dyes, woodworking, and numerous other uses of plants
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-348)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans