book chapter
Overseas missions of the Australian Methodist Church: volume 1. Tonga, Samoa
Aldersgate Press • Melbourne • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Wood, A. Harold (Alfred Harold).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a history of Methodist missionary work in Tonga from 1822, and the first Methodist missionary, to 1972. It is a very detailed history providing names and dates of missionaries and places visited, and the results of their work. It is also useful as a history of Tonga from the missionary point of view. Since missionaries have been centrally involved in Tongan life since their arrival, the important events of Tonga's history are well covered. Of particular importance are the accounts of King George Tupou's rise to power and the unification and Christianization of Tonga, and the disastrous career of Shirley Baker, missionary and later premier and virtual ruler of Tonga for ten years. Wood has attempted an objective history, and writes critically of successes and failures and gives careful attention to what he sees as errors in policy. He says he has 'endeavoured to be accurate and impartial' (p. iii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Districts
- Chief executive
- Advisers to the chief executive
- External relations
- Revolution
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Organized ceremonial
- Missions
- Religious intolerance and martyrs
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Educator
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- 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
- 1924-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780s-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- by A. Harold Wood
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77354473
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans