essay
Tongans
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers • 2 • Published In 2004 • Pages: 980-990
By: McGrath, Barbara Burns.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an encyclopedia article on Tongan health and medicine. The author gives a background of Tonga culture and history. She then discusses the health care system, traditional healers, modern medical practitioners, theories and treatment of disease, sexuality and reproduction, and child development.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Sickness
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1643-2004
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barbara Burns McGrath
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 988-990)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003050644
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans