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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 ...
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.
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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.
Social institution – Any persistent structure or mechanism of social order governing the behaviour of a set of individuals within a given community. The term "institution" is commonly applied to customs and behavior patterns important to a society, as well as to particular formal organizations of government and public services.
Society – a group of people involved in persistent interpersonal relationships, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between ...
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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 ...