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The tradition Tongan fale consisted of a curved roof (branches lashed with sennit rope, or kafa, thatched with woven palm leaves) resting on pillars made of tree trunks. Woven screens filled in the area between the ground and the edge of the roof.
Social history of Tonga (4 C) Human rights in Tonga (2 C, 4 P) L. ... Pages in category "Society of Tonga" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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 ...
Sociological Images is a blog that offers image-based sociological commentary and is one of the most widely read social science blogs. [1] Updated daily, it covers a wide range of social phenomena. The aim of the blog is to encourage readers to develop a "sociological imagination" and to learn to see how social institutions, interactions, and ...
Tonga was named the sixth-most corrupt country in the world by Forbes magazine in 2008. [65] Tonga was ranked the 165th-safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings. [66] The manufacturing sector consists of handicrafts and a few other very small-scale industries, which contribute only about 5% of ...
Pillarisation (a calque from the Dutch: verzuiling [vɛrˈzœylɪŋ] ⓘ) is the vertical separation of citizens into groups by religion and associated political beliefs.. These societies were (and in some areas, still are) divided into two or more groups known as pillars (Dutch: zu
Not much is known about Tonga before European contact because of the lack of a writing system during prehistoric times other than the oral history told to the early European explorers. The first time the Tongan people encountered Europeans was in April 1616 when Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten made a short visit to the islands to trade with ...
Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai MNZM is a Tongan curator and writer, whose work explores the role of craft in Tongan society.In the 2022 New Year Honours, Māhina-Tuai was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cultures and the arts.