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Tonga: a New Bibliography - Further Items Tonga: a new bibliography - further items These additional entries supplement my book Tonga: a new bibliography (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009). Some are of older material not noted then, but most are of new books and articles published since. Some items only available through the internet, not in printed form, are now included. Information about the book can be found on the University of Hawai’i Press website, www.uhpress.hawaii.edu © Martin Daly 2016 The Country and its People A contribution to Tongan somatology Louis R. Sullivan. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1922, 30pp. (Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Volume VIII, number 4) Key body measurements and physical characteristics of 225 Tongan men and women are set out in tabular form, with some photographs. They show that Tongans are among the tallest groups of mankind. Hair types suggest some Melanesian intermixture. [After 1] In search of the Friendly Islands Kalafi Moala. Kealakekua, Hawaii: Pasifika Foundatiion Press and Auckland, New Zealand: Pacific Media Centre, 2009. 148pp. Surveying the Tongan scene seven years after his previous book (item 688), Moala is troubled by the violence he observes within families today, in the history of Tonga, and in the riots of 16 November 2006 when much of the central business district of Nuku’alofa was destroyed, with particular hostility to the Chinese community. He considers Tonga’s place in the world’s economic systems, the role of the monarchy today and political reform, the meaning of Tongan culture and the place of the elite in the Tongan polity. He concludes with a strong plea for a spiritual reformation to recover moral values as a basis for society, without which political and economic reforms will not achieve the results that people expect. [After 9] One hundred fathoms square: our involvement in the cadastral survey of the Kingdom of Tonga and experiencing the Tongan way of life in the 1850s Bruce Alexander and Larry Wordsworth. Christchurch, New Zealand: Bruce Alexander, 2013. 152pp. In 1957 the authors undertook the first systematic land survey of Tonga, in order to divide the land into the tax allotments provided for every adult male. Writing fifty years later they describe their work, but also give a picture of life in Tonga then, illustrated with many of their own photographs. Much has changed, yet much remains familiar. [After 12] Tonga - land, sea and people Edited by Tangikina Moimoi Steen and Nancy L. Drescher. Nuku’alofa: Tonga Research Association, 2011, 247pp. This volume contains papers presented at several conferences of the Tonga Research Association. Foreword HRH Princess Sālote Mafile’o Pilolevu Tuita, ‘Ko hoku tofi’a: defining and interpreting Tonga’s cultural heritage’ History Niel Gunson, ‘The dynastic evolution and functional role of the Tu’i Tonga as master shaman’ Stephen Donald, ‘Fefakalaitaki - Working to achieve one’s ends?: The Anglican Church and Tongan politics 1899 to 1913’ I.C. Campbell, ‘A history policy for Tonga’ Wendy Pond, ‘Cook’s observatory at Point Holeva, 1777’ Helen Lee, ‘Missing Persons: children in the history of Tonga’ Adrienne L. Kaeppler, ‘Contributions of Tupou II to Tongan art and society’ Environment and technology Wendy Pond, ‘An introduction to Tonga’s natural history’ Kik Velt, ‘Astronomy in Tonga - an astronomical viewpoint’ Tangakina Moimoi Steen, ‘Questioning technology: way forward for a more informed Tonga technological community’ Makiko Nishitani, ‘Mobile phones and the internet: transnational and local networks of second- generation Tongan females in Melbourne, Australia Culture and language Mele Ongo’alupe Taumoepeau, ‘Ko e Loyo’i Tonga: a crowning jewel’ Viliami A. Taumoepeau, ‘Fa’u: prearranged marriages: the essence of all Tongan creations’ Mele Ongo’alupe Taumoepeau, ‘Proverbial reflections’ Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina, ‘Comedy and tragedy in myths, poems and proverbs: a ta-va time- space art and literary criticism Svenja Völkel Hartung, ‘Linguistic means expressing social stratification in Tonga’ Malia Talakai, ‘Intellectual property issues and challenges in the work of cultural institutions in the Kingdom of Tonga’ Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine and Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina, ‘Kula and ‘Uli: red and black in Tongan thinking and practice’ Michael Poltorak, ‘Comedy, stigma and fakasesele: contesting “mental illness” in Vava’u’ Tupou Hopoate, ‘My life in three cultures’ [After 25] Geography and Environment Niuatoputapu: story of a tsunami Compiled by Laura Jeffery. Nuku’alofa, Tonga Books, 2010, 24pp. In September 2009 a disastrous tsunami struck Niuatoputapu. Nine lives were lost and there was widespread destruction. Three inhabitants tell their stories of their remarkable survival from waves up to 17 metres high. Graphic colour photographs show some of the devastation of property and vegetation. [After 45] Travellers’ Accounts A midshipman’s journal, on board H.M.S. Seringapatam, during the year, 1830; containing brief observations on Pitcairn’s Island and other islands in the South Sea J.Orlebar. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1833. 83pp. Orlebar was impressed by Tonga. In Tongatapu he compared the Tongans favourably with the Tahitians. He notes, as other visitors had, the neatness of the countryside, ‘the modesty and gentle behaviour of the women - the independency and uprightness of the men.’ He mistook the Methodist missionaries for Baptists. He heard and tells the story of James Read, shipwrecked in Tonga in 1820 and happily married and settled. He then visited Vava’u. He was ‘very much in favor’ of the inhabitants, and saw great prospects for them, though concerned about increasing European influence. A facsimile reprint was published by Tofua Press in 1976. [After 74] Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas, performed by order of the Government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of La Pérouse’s expedition, interspersed with accounts of the religion, manners, customs, and cannibal practices of the South Sea islanders P. Dillon. London: Hurst, Chance, 1829. Volume I, 302pp., Volume II, 436pp. In the course of his expedition to establish the fate of La Pérouse (item 78), Dillon visited Tonga in August 1827. He found a number of European residents, including a survivor of Mariner’s ship the Port au Prince (item 69). Relations with Tongans were largely friendly. His European seamen performed jigs and reels to fife and drum, which delighted a visiting chief. Supplies were obtained and gifts given. He met John Thomas, who told him of the precarious state of the Wesleyan mission, and the Tongan woman who had adopted Mariner as her son, and obtained information on the visit of La Pérouse. He then describes the ‘manners and customs’ of the Tongans, based on Mariner and confirmed from his personal observations: rank and religion, morals and conduct, family relationships, the kava ceremony, sacrifices, funerals, taboo (tapu), omens and curses, medicine and surgery, canoe building, and making ropes and ngatu. He was clearly fascinated by Tonga and regrets having to ‘take leave of my worthy friends in Tonga, and resume my journal.’ [After 75] Flora and Fauna Tonga: world of water wildlife guide Neville Coleman. Springwood, Queensland: Neville Coleman, 2008. 80pp. The book provides colour photographs of over 550 species of algae, sponges, corals, sea anemones, worms, barnacles, shrimps, crabs, lobsters, bivalves, univalves, sea stars, sea cucumbers, sharks, rays, conger eels and fish found in Tongan waters. It offers notes on snorkelling and scuba diving. [After 100] Prehistory and Archaeology Archaeological demography and population growth in the Kingdom of Tonga: 950BC to the historic era David V. Burley. In: The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies: archaeological and demographic perspectives. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007, pp.177-202 From the evidence of archaeology, Burley attempts to estimate the population of Tonga from initial settlement onwards. He relates population growth and density to the potential for agricultural production and evaluates previous estimates of Tonga’s population. He suggests, from the archaeological record, that the population in the first period of Lapita settlement rose from a founding population of perhaps 100 to c.700 by 700BC, increasing by c.1000AD to between 30,000 and 40,000, with a transition from an economy based on reef and maritime exploitation to intensive dryland agriculture. Maps show the range of Lapita and Plainware sites. [Before 103] Reconsideration of sea level and landscape for first Lapita settlement at Nukuleka, Kingdom of Tonga David V. Burley. Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 51, issue 2 (2016), pp.84-90 In 2007 Burley suggested that the site of the first settlement in Tonga at Nukuleka on Tongatapu, about 900-850B.C., was on a small offshore sand cay surrounded by coastal flats. Subsequent findings of Lapita pottery and shellfish middens lead him now to conclude that the first settlement was on an offshore paleo-islet, when sea levels were over a meter above the present. Reviewing inter-tidal Lapita settlements elsewhere in Oceania, he hypothesises that the settlers may have lived in stilt-houses above the water. [After 118] Triangular men on one very long voyage: the context and implications of a Hawaiian-style petroglyph in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga Shane Egan and David. V. Burley. The Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 118, no. 3 (2009), pp. 209-32 On the island of Foa, in the Ha’apai group, a Hawaiian-style petroglyph has recently been found, of a style approximately 1400-1600. It has no precedent anywhere in Western Polynesia. The authors describe and illustrate the site and the motifs within the context of the histories of Tonga and Hawaii and of long-distance voyaging between West and East Polynesia. Many of the images closely resemble Hawaiian styles too early to have been carved by Hawaiian visitors in the nineteenth century. The authors suggest that there was indirect voyaging between Tonga and Hawaii in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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