Tonga (Anthropology)

Bell, J. A. 2012. "Review of LINES THAT CONNECT: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific. By Graeme Were.". Pacific Affairs 85:460-461.

by Joshua A. Bell

The anthropologist, the mother and the cross-cultured child: Lessons in the relativity of cultural relativity

by Heather Young-Leslie

Pushing children up: maternal obligation, modernity, and medicine in the Tongan ethnoscape

by Heather Young-Leslie

Flexibility and Preparation: Keys to Good Fieldwork

by Heather Young-Leslie

Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors' Congress 2002 Inaugural Meeting

by Heather Young-Leslie

Fostering: Case Study (Routledge Encylopedia of Women)

by Heather Young-Leslie

Published in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. Dale Spender, Cheris Kamrae, et.al Eds. New York, Routledge (pp 883-885, 2001)

This is an early draft, slightly different from the version published in the Encyclopedia. This is an early draft, slightly different from the version published in the Encyclopedia.

Kau Faito'o: Traditional Healers of Tonga. Review of Film by Melinda Ostroff.

by Heather Young-Leslie

published in: The Contemporary Pacific 16(1) :219-223, 2004

Understanding differences and similarities

by Heather Young-Leslie

Thinking Ecographically: Places, Ecographers, and Environmentalism

by Heather Young-Leslie

Subjective well-being and life satisfaction in the kingdom of Tonga

by Heather Young-Leslie

Review of Voyages by Cathy Small

by Carl L Bankston

Music transmission in an Auckland Tongan community youth band

by David Hebert

International Journal of Community Music

This article reports on findings from a 2006 ethnographic study of a Tongan community youth band in Auckland, New... more This article reports on findings from a 2006 ethnographic study of a Tongan community youth band in Auckland, New Zealand. To begin, the study's rationale is discussed in relation to previous research, followed by a description of the band's repertoire and rehearsal strategies, instrumentation and uniforms, notational practices and institutional context. The youth band's role in the Tongan community of Auckland is then considered in relation to previous descriptions of ‘community music’. The band's significance in terms of musical identity and its socio-economic context are also examined, followed by a discussion of this study's implications for community music workers in other settings. The findings suggest that community ensembles rooted in musical hybridity may generate innovative models of music learning and play a unique role in cultural preservation.

Poltorak, M. 2010. 'Traditional' Healers, Speaking and motivation in Vava’u, Tonga: Explaining Syncretism and addressing Health Policy. Oceania 80, 1: 1-23

by Mike Poltorak