തുവാലു

തെക്ക് പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ ശാന്തസമുദ്രത്തിലെ ഒമ്പതുദ്വീപുകളുടെ സമൂഹമാണ്‌ **തുവാലു**. (Tuvalu) 1978-ൽ സ്വതന്ത്രമായ ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് കോളനിയാണിത്. എല്ലിസ് ദ്വീപുകൾ എന്നാണ്‌ പൂർ‌വകാല നാമം. എലിസബത്ത് 2 രാജ്ഞിയുടെ പ്രതിനിധിയാണ്‌ രാഷ്ട്രത്തലവൻ. സർക്കാരിൻറെ തലവൻ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയും. കൃഷിയും മത്സ്യബന്ധനവുമാണ്‌ ഇവിടത്തെ പ്രധാന വരുമാന മാർഗ്ഗങ്ങൾ
### കൂടുതൽ വായനയ്ക്ക്
* *Lonely Planet Guide: South Pacific & Micronesia*, by various. 
* Chalkley, John, (1999) *Vaitupu –  two years on a remote Polynesian atoll*, Matuku Publications.  
* Ells, Philip, (2008) *Where the Hell is Tuvalu?* Virgin Books.  
* Watling, Dick, (2003) *A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia: Including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna*, Environmental Consultants (Fiji) Ltd; 2nd edition.  

; Culture, Customs and Traditions
* Barkås, Sandra Iren, ''Alofa – Expressions of Love: Change and Continuity in Tuvalu'' (2013)
* Brady, Ivan, (1972) *Kinship Reciprocity in the Ellice Islands*, Journal of Polynesian Society 81:3, 290–316
* Brady, Ivan, (1974) *Land Tenure in the Ellice Islands*, in Henry P. Lundsaarde (ed). Land Tenure in Oceania, Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii.  
* Chambers, Keith & Anne Chambers, (January 2001) *Unity of Heart: Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society*, Waveland Pr Inc.  
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* Kennedy, Donald Gilbert, *Field notes on the culture of Vaitupu, Ellice Islands* (1931): Thomas Avery & Sons, New Plymouth, N.Z.
* Kennedy, Donald Gilbert, *Land tenure in the Ellice Islands*, Journal of the Polynesian Society., Vol. 64, no. 4 (Dec. 1953):348–358.
* Koch, Gerd, (1961) *Die Materielle Kulture der Ellice-Inseln*, Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde; The English translation by Guy Slatter, was published as *The Material Culture of Tuvalu*, University of the South Pacific in Suva (1981) ASIN B0000EE805.

; History
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* *Tuvalu: A History* (1983) Isala, Tito and Larcy, Hugh (eds.), Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu.
* Bedford, R., Macdonald, B., & Munro, D., (1980) *Population estimates for Kiribati and Tuvalu, 1850–1900: Review and speculation*, Journal of the Polynesian Society, 89, 199–246.
* Bollard, AE., (1981) *The financial adventures of J. C. Godeffroy and Son in the Pacific*, Journal of Pacific History, 16: 3–19.
* Firth, S., (1973) *German firms in the Western Pacific Islands, 1857–1914*, Journal of Pacific History, 8: 10–28.
* Geddes, W. H., Chambers, A., Sewell, B., Lawrence, R., & Watters, R. (1982) *Islands on the Line, team report. Atoll economy: Social change in Kiribati and Tuvalu, No. 1*, Canberra: Australian National University, Development Studies Centre.
* Goodall, N. (1954) *A history of the London Missionary Society 1895–1945*, London: Oxford University Press.
* Macdonald, Barrie, (1971) *Local government in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1892–1969 – part 1*, Journal of Administration Overseas, 10, 280–293.
* Macdonald, Barrie, (1972) *Local government in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1892–1969 – part 2*, Journal of Administration Overseas, 11, 11–27.
* Macdonald, Barrie, (2001) *Cinderellas of the Empire: towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu*, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.  (Australian National University Press, first published 1982).
* Munro, D, Firth, S., (1986) *Towards colonial protectorates: the case of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands*, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 32: 63–71.
* Maude, H. E., (1949) *The Co-operative Movement in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands* (Technical Paper No. 1), South Pacific Commission, Sydney.
* Suamalie N.T. Iosefa, Doug Munro, Niko Besnier, (1991) *Tala O Niuoku, Te: the German Plantation on Nukulaelae Atoll 1865–1890*, Published by the Institute of Pacific Studies. .
* Pulekai A. Sogivalu, (1992) * A Brief History of Niutao*, Published by the Institute of Pacific Studies. .

; Language
* ''Vaiaso ote Gana'', Tuvalu Language Week Education Resource 2016 (New Zealand Ministry for Pacific Peoples) 
* Besnier, Niko, (1995) *Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll*, Cambridge University Press.  
* Besnier, Niko, (2000) *Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. (Descriptive Grammars)* Routledge  .
* Jackson, Geoff W. & Jenny Jackson, (1999) *An Introduction to Tuvaluan*.  .
* Jackson, Geoff W., (1994) *Te Tikisionale O Te Gana Tuvalu*, A Tuvaluan-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji, Oceania Printers. ASIN: B0006F7FNY
* Kennedy, Donald Gilbert, *Te ngangana a te Tuvalu – Handbook on the language of the Ellice Islands* (1946) Websdale, Shoosmith, Sydney N.S.W.

; Music and Dance
* Christensen, Dieter, (1964) *Old Musical Styles in the Ellice Islands*, Western Polynesia, Ethnomusicology, 8:1, 34–40.
* Christensen, Dieter and Gerd Koch, (1964) *Die Musik der Ellice-Inseln*, Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde.
* Koch, Gerd, (2000) *Songs of Tuvalu* (translated by Guy Slatter), Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.  

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## പുറത്തേക്കുള്ള കണ്ണികൾ

* ''Te Kakeega III – National Strategy for Sustainable Development-2016-2020''
* Tuvalu from *UCB Libraries GovPubs*
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* Tuvalu profile from the BBC News
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