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Oral traditionsarticle 1968 • Lātūkefu, Sione
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source concerns the usefulness of Tongan oral traditions for historical research. The author, a Tongan historian, outlines the methods he used to elicit oral traditions and the ways he went about cross-checking and analyzing the traditional mate...Church and state in TongaBook 1974 • Lātūkefu, Sione
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
The author of this source is an indigene, an historian, and an ordained Methodist minister. This source is a revision of his dissertation on the role of Methodist missionaries in the political development of Tonga in the 19th century. The source is b...