Persistence of the Gift : Tongan Tradition in Transnational Context.

Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world's few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system through markets and political relationships, in the last few decades emerging regional and glob...

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Main Author: Evans, Mike
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Language:English
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
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520 |a Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world's few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system through markets and political relationships, in the last few decades emerging regional and global structures have had particularly intense and transformative effects. Today, because of greatly increased labour migration, people, money, and resources are in constant circulation among Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. In Persistence of the Gift, Evans provides a detailed ethno. 
505 0 |a List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; One Introduction -- Recentring the Periphery; Two Economic Development in Polynesia; Three Social Structure and Organization during the Contact andEarly Post-Contact Period; Four European Contact and the Transformation of theTraditional Polity; Five Contemporary Social Organization among VillageCommoners; Six The Island Economy; Seven Gift Exchange and Ceremony; Eight Conclusion -- By Their Actions Ye Shall Know Them; One A Comparison of the Population and Demography ofHa'ano Island and the Kingdom of Tonga As a Whole. 
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