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Any description of Tongan culture that limits itself to what Tongans see as anga fakatonga would give a seriously distorted view of what people actually do, in Tonga, or in diaspora, because accommodations are so often made to anga fakapālangi. The following account tries to give both the idealized and the on-the-ground versions of Tongan culture.
Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British ), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders .
Events in Tonga (4 C, 2 P) F. Films set in Tonga (1 C, 4 P) G. ... Pages in category "Culture of Tonga" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
In Tonga it is performed at public and private ceremonies. The men, bearing stylized clubs (pate kailao), dance in a fierce manner that emulates fighting, to the accompaniment of a beaten slit drum or tin box which sets the tempo.
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 ...
Criticism of the monarch is held to be contrary to Tongan culture and etiquette. Tonga provides for its citizens a free and mandatory education for all, secondary education with only nominal fees, and foreign-funded scholarships for postsecondary education. Tāufaʻāhau, King of Tonga (1845–1893)
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After returning to Australia, he published Koe Ta'u'e Teau (1926) and Tales and Poems of Tonga (1928), as well as lecturing on Tongan culture and beginning an English-language history of Tonga. [1] Along with Gifford's Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Tales and Poems has been described as one of the two major collections of Tongan legends. [5]