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Islanders of the south: production, kinship and ideology in the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga

KITLV PressLeidenPublished In 1993 • Pages: x, 264

By: Grijp, Paul van der, Mason, Peter.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a solid ethnography of Tonga village culture and household-based economy, which is a mix of subsistence and commodity production, although leaning more and more toward the latter. The author did fieldwork in villages in all three regions of Tonga. He discusses agriculture, fishing, and manufacture. He also discusses the kinship system and its relation to migration, land tenure, status, and exchanges among households.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Arboriculture
Real property
Production and supply
Household
Kindreds and ramages
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.
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.
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
1982-1991
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1960-1991
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tonga
NotesAdditional notes
Paul van der Grijp ; translated by Peter Mason
Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-258) and index
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
93158053
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Tongans