Book
To please oneself: local organization in the Tongan Islands
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Dector Korn, Shulamit Rose.
Abstract
'This study attempts to make intelligible the variability of local organization in Tonga' (p. 1). Dector Korn maintains that this variability is due to the lack of overarching organization at the local level. This absence allows people a wide range of choices in adapting to their particular circumstances. The source includes information on the history, demography, and geography of the Tonga in general. It is a community study of one particular village on Tongatapu, and for this village provides information on household structure, economics, and dynamics of household information; kin groups; religious congregations; voluntary associations; status; articulation of the village with higher levels of authority; and aspects of national integration.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2006
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Polynesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Martin J. Malone; 1978
- Field Date
- July 1969- May 1970 (10 months)
- Coverage Date
- 1969-1970
- Coverage Place
- Village of Motulahi (pseudonym), Tongatapu Island, Tonga
- Notes
- Shulamit Rose Dector Korn
- Subject terms ETHOS (181) and FUNCTIONAL AND ADAPTATIONAL INTERPRETATIONS (182) have been used for discussions of the 'loose structure' of Tongan society and the processes of national integration.
- UM77-20,999
- Includes bibliographical references (p. )
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- LCSH
- Tongans