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    Oceania Steve Francis Every Tongan adult has both a fonua, or island/village identity, ... regional and national identities. The paper will seek to mak e explicit the m ultiple r oles of fonua in Tonga thr ough an e xamination of myth, history, social relations and local boundaries within the Kingdom of Tonga. Arrival: Austronesian-Speaking ...
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    Although Tonga has been a Christian nation for more than a century, fonua invokes for Tongans an indigenous cosmology in which the environment is regarded as 'an extension of human society' (Mahina 1992: 57). As a result, human agency is integral to a physical landscape that includes the land, the ocean and the sky.
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    People and Place in Tonga: The Social Construction of Fonua in Oceania Prev Fonua in Tongan History ... a process of cultural transformation. At any given time a group will inherit certain cultural institutions and traditions, but its acts of reiteration or repudiation, its everyday interactions and its ritual practices will serve to select ...
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    The most famous example of this form of obligation was the 'inasi, 'first fruits', ceremony, an annual tribute of yams ('ufi) to the Tu'i Tonga by the chiefs of all of Tonga. Of course, it was the 'commoners' ( tu'a ) working on the 'api plantations who actually cultivated and harvested the produce by order of their chiefs.
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    'The Tongan way' (anga fakatonga) is frequently invoked in everyday life in Tonga as both the defining element of Tongan identity and as the values and behaviours that comprise Tongan culture.Anga fakatonga is also rendered as 'ulungaanga o e fonua or anga fakafonua: the way of the land and the people.
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    Fonua therefore represents a powerful social construction, accommodating assertions of national unity (one people, one place) and a celebration of the diverse histories and distinct territories (many people, many places) that today comprise the Kingdom of Tonga.
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    In the Talatupu'a myth, the fonua is intimately connected with the ocean and the sky. At the beginning of the tale, Kele (lit: 'earth/dirt') is found drifting in the ocean. Floating like the islands of Tonga, Kele connects the ocean (tahi, 'sea', or moana, 'deep sea') with fonua.
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    81 3 . BODIES PERMEABLE AND DIVINE Manava's historical significance as the primary Tongan concept of bodily animation led it to develop several dependent constructions, such as the verbs manava'aki (literally 'about manava', meaning 'to eat') and āmnava'aki (about mānava, meaning to breathe).These terms generalised ānava manava-minto aconceptual cluster that
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    My research in Tonga demonstrated that transnational practices can differ markedly among island nations and that patterns of movement into and out of villages can be identified. Variables such as history, origin and socio-economic context greatly affect how transnational movements are enacted and transacted.
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    "Missionaries" and Cultural Mediators in Tonga (Polynesia) Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon Introduction: How the South Sea Islands Were "Invented" Before They Were Discovered This chapter focuses on a particular period in the history of the first European contacts with Tonga, that is, between 1796 and 1826, a period which was
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