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A survey of the history of Tonga: some new views
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde • 124 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 505-520
By: Claessen, H. J. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a systematic survey of the history of the Tonga Islands, with a concentration on the period of 1770-1820. Emphasis was placed on this chronological period because the author considers it a particularly confused period of Tongan history 'in which a whole series of authorities were involved in a great number of political complications' (p. 505). Claessen attempts to unravel some of these complications and in the process throws new light on some of the rather nebulous political figures in Tongan history mentioned in other sources in this file, but whose actual roles were never made clear. At the time of writing Claessen was assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Districts
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- External relations
- Revolution
- Missions
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; Martin J. Malone; 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
- 1770-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henri J. M. Claessen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-520)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 86000287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans