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Journal articles on the topic "Polynesia - Tonga"

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Gosden, C., J. Allen, W. Ambrose, et al. "Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago." Antiquity 63, no. 240 (1989): 561–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00076559.

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The Lapita questionThe prehistory of the western Pacific has, for the last 30 years, been dominated by the problem of the origins of the present Polynesian and Melanesian cultures (Terrell 1988). In 1961 Golson drew attention to the distribution of highly decorated Lapita pottery, now known to date from between 3500 BP and 2000 BP, which crossed the present-day division between Melanesia and Polynesia. Furthermore, sites with Lapita pottery represented the first evidence of occupation on Tonga and Samoa, the most westerly Polynesian islands from which it was thought that the rest of Polynesia was colonized. Lapita pottery came to be associated with a movement of people from Melanesia to Polynesia and was seen to represent the founding group ancestral to later Polynesian groups.

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McCoy, Mark D., Caroline Cervera, Mara A. Mulrooney, Andrew McAlister, and Patrick V. Kirch. "Obsidian and volcanic glass artifact evidence for long-distance voyaging to the Polynesian Outlier island of Tikopia." Quaternary Research 98 (June 10, 2020): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.38.

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AbstractReconstructing routes of ancient long-distance voyaging, long a topic of speculation, has become possible thanks to advances in the geochemical sourcing of archaeological artifacts. Of particular interest are islands classified as Polynesian Outliers, where people speak Polynesian languages and have distinctly Polynesian cultural traits, but are located within the Melanesian or Micronesian cultural areas. While the classification of these groups as Polynesian is not in dispute, the material evidence for the movement between Polynesia and the Polynesian Outliers is exceedingly rare, unconfirmed, and in most cases, nonexistent. We report on the first comprehensive sourcing (using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer) of obsidian and volcanic glass artifacts recovered from excavations on the Polynesian Outlier island of Tikopia. We find evidence for: (1) initial settlement followed by continued voyages between Tikopia and an island Melanesian homeland; (2) long-distance voyaging becoming much less frequent and continuing to decline; and (3) later voyaging from Polynesia marked by imports of volcanic glass from Tonga beginning at 765 cal yr BP (±54 yr). Later long-distance voyages from Polynesia were surprisingly rare, given the strong cultural and linguistic influences of Polynesia, and we suggest, may indicate that Tikopia was targeted by Tongans for political expansion.

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Robie, David. "NOTED: Lost in translation." Pacific Journalism Review 20, no. 1 (2014): 264. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v20i1.205.

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Reviewed book by Tim HoganNew Zealand media and journalists largely equate the ‘Pacific’ with Polynesia. The focus of reportage and understanding the region begins with the Cook islands and ends with Niue, Samoa and Tonga, with a limited grasp of Fiji. Anything west of Nadi, the Melanesian nations, gains cursory attention and Tahiti Nui (Polynesian) and Kanaky (Melanesian) are all but ignored.

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Kirch, P. V., T. L. Hunt, and Jason Tyler. "A Radiocarbon Sequence from the Toaga Site, Ofu Island, American Samoa." Radiocarbon 31, no. 1 (1989): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200044568.

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The Samoan Archipelago occupies a critical position for understanding the dispersal of early Austronesian-speaking peoples into the southwestern Pacific, including the initial colonization by humans of the Polynesian triangle. To date, the most easterly reported site of the Lapita cultural complex (Green, 1979; Kirch, 1984; Kirch & Hunt, 1988) is the Mulifanua site on Upolu Island, Western Samoa (Green & Davidson, 1974). Lapita colonists settled the larger, western Samoan Islands by the end of the second millennium bc. Archaeologic and linguistic evidence also suggest that the islands of Eastern Polynesia (eg, Marquesas, Society and Cook Islands) were settled, at least in part, from Samoa. However, the timing of this movement into Eastern Polynesia has not yet been dated to earlier than ca 150 bc on the basis of radiocarbon dating of cultural materials from the Marquesas Islands (Kirch, 1986; Ottino, 1985). This has raised the issue of whether there was a “long pause” between the settlement of Samoa (and the other islands of Western Polynesia, such as Tonga, Futuna, and ‘Uvea) and that of Eastern Polynesia (Irwin, 1981; Kirch, 1986; Terrell, 1986).

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Buckley, Hallie R. "Subadult health and disease in prehistoric Tonga, Polynesia." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113, no. 4 (2000): 481–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1096-8644(200012)113:4<481::aid-ajpa4>3.0.co;2-1.

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Burley, David V., and Sean P. Connaughton. "First Lapita Settlement and its Chronology in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga." Radiocarbon 49, no. 1 (2007): 131–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200041965.

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Beginning approximately cal 1400 BC, Austronesian-speaking Lapita peoples began a colonizing migration across Oceania from the Bismarck Archipelago to western Polynesia. The first point of entry into Polynesia occurred on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga with subsequent spread northward to Samoa along a natural sailing corridor. Radiocarbon measurements from recent excavations at 4 sites in the northern Vava'u islands of Tonga provide a chronology for the final stage of this diaspora. These dates indicate that the northern expansion was almost immediate, that a paucity of Lapita sites to the north cannot be explained as a result of lag time in the settlement process, and that decorated Lapita ceramics disappeared rapidly after first landfalls.

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Burley, David V. "As a prescription to rule: the royal tomb of Mala'e Lahi and 19th-century Tongan kingship." Antiquity 68, no. 260 (1994): 504–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00047013.

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The tangled dynastic history of Tonga, celebrated kingdom of western Polynesia, offers a rare chance to study the place of monumental burial-places in a chieftains’ society. Disentangling the story, at a remove of not many centuries, is not a simple business.

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Bennardo, Giovanni. "Map Drawing in Tonga, Polynesia: Accessing Mental Representations of Space." Field Methods 14, no. 4 (2002): 390–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/152582202237727.

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Meehan, Hayley J., Kim R. McConkey, and Donald R. Drake. "Potential disruptions to seed dispersal mutualisms in Tonga, Western Polynesia." Journal of Biogeography 29, no. 5-6 (2002): 695–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00718.x.

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Kaeppler, Adrienne L. "Me'etu'upaki and Tapaki, Paddle Dances of Tonga and Futuna, West Polynesia." Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 33, no. 1/4 (1991): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/902457.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polynesia - Tonga"

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Kinikini, Lea Lani. "Narrative Survival in the Tongan Diaspora: The Case of the American Deportees." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21109.

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Sutherland, Gabrielle. "Ocean nets: the maintenance and dissolution of an Indigenous small world-system in West Polynesia." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6452.

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This thesis is an application of the theory and method of the comparative world-systems approach to West Polynesia. This study examines the interactions between the archipelagos of Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa during the period between 1770 and 1870, that include the exchange in prestige valuables, military/political interactions, and marriages. Using the nested interaction net model of Chase-Dunn and Hall, this thesis analyzes the interactions in order to determine whether the interactions display systemic properties, that is to say whether the interactions are important in the social reproduction in each of the particular societal units of the region. The archival evidence shows that the region was an indigenous world-system, whereby interactions served to maintain the stability of the system, which then as a result of European involvement in the region resulted in an increase of Tongan political domination, before the entire system was broken up and governed by different colonial powers.<br>Graduate

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Books on the topic "Polynesia - Tonga"

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Malm, Thomas. Shell age economics: Marine gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia. Lund University Press, 1999.

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Malm, Thomas. Shell age economics: Marine gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia. Dept. of Sociology, Lund University, 1999.

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Tradition versus democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Watling, Dick. A guide to the birds of Fiji & Western Polynesia: Including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis-Futuna. Environmental Consultants, 2001.

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Tonga: Tale of two kingdoms. Taimi Publishers, 2011.

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Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community Coastal Fisheries. Regional and country reports: Cook Is., Fiji Is., French Polynesia, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Is., New Caledonia, Niue, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Is., Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Coastal Fisheries Programme, 2009.

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Whistler, W. Arthur. Checklist of the weed flora of Western Polynesia: An annotated list of the weed species of Samoa, Tonga, Niue, and Wallis and Futuna, along with the earliest dates of collection and the local names. South Pacific Commission, 1988.

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Finau, Louise Lose. Toki: A Tongan trilogy : a historical novel based on the Polynesian life of Will Mariner and Finau Ulukalala of Tonga. Simmons Pub. Co., 1996.

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Tsukamoto, Akihisa. Forschungen über die Sprachen der Inseln zwischen Tonga und Saamoa. Lit, 1994.

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McCoy, Mary M. Making sense of Tonga: A visitor's guide to the kingdom's rich Polynesian culture. Training Group of the Pacific, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Polynesia - Tonga"

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Broschart, Jürgen. "The social perception of space non-spatial determinants of the use of directionals in Tongan (Polynesia)." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60392-1_29.

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Bennardo, Giovanni. "Cultural Models of Nature in Tonga (Polynesia)." In Cultural Models of Nature. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351127905-3.

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Flicker, Leon, and Ngaire Kerse. "Population ageing in Oceania." In Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198701590.003.0008.

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The region of Oceania describes a collection of islands scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean between Asia and the Americas. The region is vast and largely covered by ocean. There are four subregions of this region including Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), Melanesia (Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia), Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia and Guam), and Polynesia (includes French Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, Tokalau, and Niue). Australasia is relatively affluent and developed with an ageing population, whereas the other nations are of a developing nature with relatively younger populations but will face dramatic population ageing over the next 40 years. Australasia has well-developed services for older people. The Indigenous populations of Australasia have worse health outcomes than the non-Indigenous populations. However, outside Australasia there is an urgent need to develop health and community services for older people in the remainder of the region.

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Suda, Kazuhiro. "Marine Resource Use in Transition: Modern Fishing in Tonga, Western Polynesia." In Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions (Terra Australis 39). ANU Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ta39.12.2013.10.

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Small, Cathy A. "The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society." In Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195131673.003.0015.

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Computer modeling, because it abstracts cultural processes and quantifies social variables, is often seen as contradictory to the rich qualitative rendering of culture that ethnography offers. In this chapter, I attempt to show that computer modeling and ethnography can go hand-in-glove. Using an agent-based model of Polynesian social dynamics, I demonstrate how simulation can aid an ethnographer in better understanding the ethnographic record, in this case, the relationship between marriage customs and stratification in Tonga. In a more abstract sense, I suggest that agent-based models, simulated over time, can elucidate the relationship between individual or group (human) decisions and the social structures which both result from and constrain those decisions. In so doing, simulation can provide new insights into the ethnographic record, edifying structural relationships, helping to generate explanations for phenomena, or pointing to the most fruitful places to go in the ethnographic record for new insights. Marriage in Polynesia both reflects and creates political fortunes by affecting the kinship and exchange relationships among lines, the pattern of chiefly alliances, and the transmission of rank over generations (Sahlins 1958; Biersack 1982; Huntsman 1975; Goldman 1970; Linnekin 1990; Shore 1976; Kaeppler 1971; Gailey 1987; Valeri 1972). The significance of marriage preferences or restrictions in the political process is often understood by historical example, that is by the advantages that accrued to particular lines or chiefs who enacted particular types of marriages. Thus, for instance, to understand Tongan "kitetama" marriage (where a man marries his mother's brother's daughter), Bott (1982:77) generalizes from particular examples of kitetama marriages, suggesting that this marriage custom strengthens a man's tie with his mother's people and, over time, serves to reinforce kinship and alliance ties over generations between a brother's and sister's lines. What we cannot tell from such an analysis is if this marriage form has any implications for the development and evolution of chiefdoms as a whole.

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Douaire-Marsaudon, Françoise. "Uncertain Times: Sailors, Beachcombers and Castaways as “Missionaries” and Cultural Mediators in Tonga (Polynesia)." In Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence. ANU Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/oe.07.2009.05.

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Otsuka, Yuko. "Apparent raising in Tongan and its implications for multiple case valuation." In Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0009.

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Apparent raising (AR) constructions in Tongan resemble raising constructions in that the thematic subject of the embedded clause seems to occur in the matrix subject position. Unlike regular raising, however, Tongan AR shows characteristics of A-bar movement such as long-distance dependency, sensitivity to islands, and syntactic ergativity. This chapter argues that Tongan AR involves three operations: (a) topic movement of a DP to the embedded [Spec, C], (b) cancelation of the previous valuation of the case feature on the DP in [Spec, C], and (c) subsequent case valuation under Agree with the matrix v. The proposed analysis calls for a parametric adjustment to the activity condition to allow for multiple case valuation: in languages like Tongan, a DP located at the edge of a phase not only remains active, but the valuation of its case feature gets undone upon completion of the CP phase.

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Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. "Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan." In Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0004.

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Research on word order has established several possible ways in which VOS order can be derived from VSO order. This chapter considers the derivational relationship between VSO and VOS in the Polynesian language Tongan. VSO order is basic in Tongan, and we address the derivation of VOS from this basic order in the context of multiple possibilities. We argue that Tongan VOS is better analyzed as rightward displacement of the subject as opposed to leftward displacement of the object proposed by Otsuka (2005a,c). The clause-final subject shows many of the hallmarks of rightward movement, including information-structural restrictions, locality with respect to the matrix clause, lack of clitic doubling, and connectivity with respect to case and binding. Given that rightward movement has an uneasy place in syntactic theory, we take pains to establish that the analysis is successful and worth further scrutiny.

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Doner, Julianne. "Predicate-EPP in Niuean, Tongan, and beyond." In Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0011.

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This chapter investigates predicate-EPP languages as a typological class through comparison of Irish, Inuktitut, and Niuean and their contrast with French and Finnish. It is argued that predicate-EPP languages are characterized by raising of a predicate, rather than a verbal element. Furthermore, this chapter demonstrates that Niuean exhibits all of the typological properties of predicate-EPP languages described by Doner (2019), including a lack of non-finite clauses, a merged C and T, optional tense, and non-contrastive definiteness. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that Tongan also can best be analyzed as having a predicate-EPP type, contra Otsuka (2005). It is argued that the subject clitic is able to cliticize to T through a process of Local Dislocation after raising of the remnant vP, which best accounts for the surface morpheme order in Tongan.

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Clemens, Lauren, and Rebecca Tollan. "Syntactic ergativity as absolutive movement in Tongic Polynesian." In Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0005.

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We propose a unified account of the presence of syntactic ergativity and the availability of variable post-verbal word order in the Tongic branch of Polynesian languages. In Tongan, ergative subjects cannot freely extract, and both VSO and VOS word orders are possible. By contrast, ergative subjects in Niuean freely extract, but word order with two full DP arguments is strictly VSO. We argue that these differences stem from a single point of parametric variation in the syntax: the locus of absolutive case assignment (Bittner & Hale 1996; a.o.). In Tongan, absolutive is assigned by T<sup>0</sup>, such that the object must A-move past the ergative subject, giving rise to extraction restrictions and the availability of VOS word order. In Niuean, absolutive is assigned by v <sup>0</sup>; as such, there is no object A-movement, hence no extraction restrictions, and VOS is not possible.

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