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Alternative social structures and the limits of hierarchy in the modern Kingdom of Tongaarticle 1975 • Marcus, George E.
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
The purpose of this source is '... to examine the extent to which routine, everyday interpersonal relations within a low status group or class in a highly stratified society are in fact permeated by the same concerns with status differentiation or ra...Succession disputes and the position of the nobility in modern Tongaarticle 1977 • Marcus, George E.
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source deals with both formal and informal disputes amongst Tongan nobles over succession to titles. Most of the disputes have involved nobles created by King Tupou I's reforms. The author distinguishes between chiefly status inherited by aristo...The nobility and the chiefly tradition in the modern Kingdom of TongaBook 1978 • Marcus, George E.
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This is a study of the adjustment of Tonga chiefs to modern society. In the traditional Tonga chiefdom, parallel lines of authority and rank passed through male and female lines, respectively. Chiefs controlled land and labor as titled heads of terri...Power on the extreme peripheryarticle 1981 • Marcus, George E.
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
Marcus examines Tongan social relations within two distinct periods of Tongan integration into the capitalist world system, 1875-1965 and 1965-present (1978). The earlier period is marked by a centralized monarchy, weak parliament, land-based heredit...Status rivalry in a Polynesian steady-state societyarticle 1978 • Marcus, George E.
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This article is a discussion of status competition in contemporary Tonga. After a general discussion of the psychocultural dimension and history of status rivalry in Tonga and other hierarchical Polynesian societies, Marcus focuses on two observed si...