Tonga and Samoa
Subtitle: images of gender and polity
By: edited by Judith Huntsman
Contributors: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
Publisher: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Christchurch, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780958330060
Subjects: Ethnology; Tongans; Social life and customs; Samoans; Social status; History; Sozialstruktur; Moeurs et coutumes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-122).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Judith Huntsman; title: "To whom gods and men crowded" : chieftainship and hierarchy in ancient Samoa / Malama Meleisea; title: Hierarchy and the prerogative of history-making in Tonga / Phyllis Herda; title: Rank overrules everything : hierarchy, social stratification and gender in Tonga / Kerry James; title: The Samoan concept of Feagaiga and its transformation / Penelope Schoeffel.