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Funerals in Tonga, despite the large Christian influence they have received over the last 150 years or so, are still very much a traditional affair and an important part of the culture of Tonga, especially if it concerns the death of a member of the royal family or a high chief.
Critical essays: cultural perspectives from the South Seas. Canberra: Journal of Pacific History, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-9595477-9-5. OCLC 42008847. Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois (1971). Rank in Tonga. OCLC 49214460.
Best Funeral Ever is an American reality television series that aired on the TLC cable network, beginning January 6, 2013. [1]The show took place at the Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas, Texas, an African-American family-operated business, and centered primarily on over-the-top and extravagant funerals carried out by the families of the recently deceased.
Bedford, Texas also has several hundred Tongan residents. There are 500 people of Tongan descent living in Portland, Oregon (0.1% of the city's population). There are over 1,000 Tongans in the Seattle metropolitan area, mainly in the White Center area, which is at least 2% Tongan. Anchorage, Alaska (0.3%); Kona, Hawaii; Lahaina, Hawaii, and ...
Tongan kava ceremonies are a variety of ceremonies involving the kava plant that play an integral part of Tongan society and governance.They play a role in strengthening cultural values and principles, solidifying traditional ideals of duty and reciprocity, reaffirming societal structures, and entrenching the practice of pukepuke fonua (lit. "tightly holding onto the land"), a Tongan cultural ...
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The Tonga language of Zambia is spoken by about 1.38 million people in Zambia and 137,000 in Zimbabwe; it is an important lingua franca in parts of those countries and is spoken by members of other ethnic groups as well as the Tonga. [6] (The Malawian Tonga language is classified in a different zone of the Bantu languages.)
The National Museum of Funeral History is a museum in Houston, Texas, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics that aim to "educate the public and preserve the heritage of death care." The 35,000-square-foot museum opened in 1992.