Tonga
The World Factbook: Background: :: Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance. The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900; it withdrew from the protectorate and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970. Tonga remains the only monarchy in the Pacific. :: ...read more [Source: The World Factbook ] Wikipedia: Tonga ([ˈtoŋa]; Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 176 islands with a surface area of about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean, of which 52 are inhabited by its 103,000 people.[4]
Tonga stretches over about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line about a third of the distance from ...read more [Source: Wikipedia ]
Expertise (alphabetical order)
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology at University of Waikato, New ZealandKeywords: Cultural Studies , Development Studies , Diasporas , Education , Indigenous Epistemology , Post-Colonialism , Spirituality , Kava , Indigenous Substances/medicines , Identity
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New ZealandKeywords: Development Studies , Education , Kava/Yaqona , Cognition , Health , Applied Anthropology , Community Development , Cultural Studies , Customary Law , Decolonisation
Giovanni BENNARDO Professor, Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, United StatesKeywords: Climate Change , Comparative Studies , Kinship , Knowledge , Language , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Semantics-Pragmatics , Social Network Analysis , Social Organization
Niko BESNIER Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, NetherlandsKeywords: Gender , Sexuality , Globalization , Body Theory , Food and Nutrition , Sport , Morality , Christianity , Conflict , Economic Anthropology
Ruci Mafi BOTEI PhD Student, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiKeywords: Agency , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Cutural Change , Epistemology , Pacific Regional Politics , Pacific Studies , World Heritage
Aurélie CONDEVAUX Associate Professor, EIREST (Interdisciplinary Research Team on Tourism) at University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, FranceKeywords: Art , Cultural Heritage , Gender , Identity , Tourism , Politics , Citizenship , Democracy , Diasporas
Paul D'ARCY Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Agency , Anthropology , Conflict Resolution , Coral Reefs , Cultural Geography , Development Studies , Fisheries , Food History , History
Greg DVORAK Associate Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, JapanKeywords: Post-Colonialism , Self-Determination , World War II , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Studies , Critical History , Commemoration , Gender , Sexuality
Sue FARRAN Professor, Law at Northumbria University, United KingdomKeywords: Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Neo-Colonialism , Post-Colonialism , Sustainability , Development , Children , Legal Pluralism
Patricia FIFITA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Indigenous Epistemology , Colonialism , Biomedicine , Gender , Non Communicable Diseases , Political Economy , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Climate Change
Lea Lani KINIKINI KAUVAKA Independent researcher, Pacific Community at EU PacTVET project, TongaKeywords: Resilience , Indigenous Knowledge , Forced Migration , Subaltern Bodies , Māui Genealogies , Body Theory , Coconut Oil , Race , Settlerhood
Stephanie LAWSON Professor, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, AustraliaKeywords: Custom , Democracy , Globalization , Governance , Inter-ethnic Relations , International Relationships , Pacific Regional Politics , Politics , Post-Colonialism , Race / Racism
John Joseph MCCAFFERY Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland at Uniservices Consultancy Ltd, New ZealandKeywords: Education , Education Policy , Language Policy , Language Shift , Language-Culture-Cognition , Polynesian Languages , Pacific Studies , Language , Literacy , Bilingual/Immersion Education
Andrew MILLS Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Conservation & Technical Art History, History of Art Department, School of Culture & Creative Arts at University of Glasgow, United KingdomKeywords: Art , Anthropology of Ontology , Cultural Change , Material Culture , Mission History , Museums , Semiotics , Tapa , Weapons , Violent Conflict
Richard MOYLE Professor emeritus, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of Auckland, New ZealandKeywords: Christianisation , Cultural Change , Dance , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Language Documentation , Polynesian Languages , Ritual , Voyaging , Oral Tradition , Music
Arnaud NOURY Independent researcher, FranceKeywords: Art , Austronesian Languages , Climate Change , Cosmology , Digital Resources , Myth , History , Austronesian Prehistory , Pacific Studies , Ritual Studies
Patrick NUNN Professor, Sustainability Research Centre at University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Human Ecology , Indigenous Knowledge , Kava , Landscape , Myth , Religion And The Environment , Sustainable Development
Károly Sándor PALLAI Research Fellow, Department of French and Francophone Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryKeywords: Contemporary Literatures , Francophone Literatures , Identity , Postcolonial Literatures , French Overseas Territories , Post-Colonialism , Narratives , Literature , Cultural Studies , Colonial Imagination
Mike POLTORAK Lecturer, School of Anthropology and Conservation at University of Kent, United KingdomKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Visual Anthropology , Pacific Media , Intersubjectivity , Ilness Experience , Mental Illness , Global Health , Ethnographic Filmmaking , Engaged Anthropology
Jouni TAKALO PhD Student, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies/ Folkloristics at University of Turku, FinlandKeywords: Cosmology , Myth , Symbolism , History , Regional History , Oral Tradition , Agency , Cultural Change , Colonial Process , Digital Resources
Toon VAN MEIJL Professor, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies - Dept. of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, NetherlandsKeywords: Anti-colonial , Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Corporations , Cultural Heritage , Identity , Indigenous Politics , Intellectual Property Rights , Land Dispute
Fanny Wonu VEYS Curator at Museum van Nationaal Wereldculturen - National Museum of World Cultures, NetherlandsKeywords: Art , Exhibitions , First Contacts , Heritage , Indigenous Christianities , Material Culture , Mission History , Museums , Tapa , Visual Anthropology
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
Heather YOUNG-LESLIE Associate Professor, Office of the Vice-President, Research at University of Alberta, CanadaKeywords: Biomedicine , Development , Gender , Health , Health Workers , Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Body Theory , Mothering , Maternalisms
Official Websites Falealea 'o Tonga... Ministry of Information and Communications... Ministry of Health... Research Centres Euakafa Island Research Centre...
Libraries and Archives Tonga Campus Library of the University of ...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum...
Health and Health Research Commonwealth Health Online... Institut of Health Metrics and Evaluation... Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
Languages
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec
Administrative Areas 'Eua (Island Group) Ha'apai (Island Group) Niuas (Island Group) Tongatapu (Island Group) Vava'u (Island Group)
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Note that positions may be inaccurate or approximate.