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Tongan society at the time of Captain Cook's visits : discussions with Her Majesty Queen Sālote Tupou / by Elizabeth Bott with the assistance of Tavi.
- Title
- Tongan society at the time of Captain Cook's visits : discussions with Her Majesty Queen Sālote Tupou / by Elizabeth Bott with the assistance of Tavi.
- Author
- Bott, Elizabeth.
- Publication
- Wellington : Polynesian Society, 1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | L.SOC. 80.100 (44) | Off-site |
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- Description
- 187 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The aim of the paper is to describe the social and political organisation of the Kingdom of Tonga in the Western Pacific as it was when Captain Cook made his visits in the 1770s."--P.7.
- Series Statement
- Memoir / Polynesian Society, 0079-3779 ; no. 44
- Uniform Title
- Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; v. 44
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Interviews
- Interviews.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 167-169.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Elizabeth Bott -- 1. Captain [James] Cook's view of Tonga -- 2. General principles of political and social organisation (Rank and authority: the concepts of 'eiki and pule ; Title and ha'a) -- 3. Background to Tongan society at the time of Cook's visits (The tu'i tonga ; The tu'i ha'atakalaua ; The tu'i kanokupolu) -- Conclusion.
- LCCN
- ^^^84159459^//r87
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library