Inventing Mormon Identity in Tonga
Author | : Tamar G. Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saint churches |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tamar G. Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saint churches |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul van der Grijp |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004433511 |
Identity and Development presents a remarkable record of Tonga s increasing participation in the modern global economy, and provides anthropologists, economists, and historians with a detailed case study that bears heavily on major issues of the day, both practically and theoretically. The book focuses on issues of identity, entrepreneurship, and the intricacies of development and addresses the question: How (in the current state of the economy) can a Tongan become a successful grower? This question is set against the background of a boom in cash cropping, sparked by a burgeoning export trade with Japan.
Author | : Martin Daly |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824831969 |
Praise for the first edition: "Tonga is unique among bibliographies in its perception and understanding, and in its affection for Tonga and its people. . . . Daly’s work stands on exceptionally sound foundations. . . . His summaries are excellent, indeed, but Daly writes always with the authority of first-hand knowledge, with a keen eye for the essential, and the ability to interpret and clarify obscurities. . . . A trustworthy introduction to Tonga in all its diversity, a splendid point de départ for all, layman or scholar, needing a reliable guide to the essential literature about this remarkable Polynesian kingdom." —Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "The book is so arranged that it is easy to locate any of the items listed. . . . I found myself spending pleasant hours perusing Daly’s comments on the different publications.. . . I hope the rumor of a second, revised edition of this bibliography is true." —Journal of the Polynesian Society Tonga is a fascinating and subtle combination of a traditional Polynesian kingdom—the only one to survive the impact of colonization in the nineteenth century and remain independent—and a thoroughly Christian country. This comprehensive bibliography is a selective guide to the most significant and accessible English-language books, papers, and articles on every aspect of the kingdom’s history, culture, arts, politics, environment, and economy. It is a much updated and expanded edition of the original version that was published in 1999 as part of the World Bibliographical Series, with the addition of more than 200 new entries. Each of the approximately 600 described and annotated items is organized under broad subject headings, and indexed by author, title, and subject. In addition—and new to this edition—all known Ph.D. theses, although not annotated, are shown within their appropriate subject categories and indexed. Also new is a section on the most important Tonga-related websites. A general introduction describes the Tongan kingdom, its history and society, and its current situation. Tonga: A New Bibliography will be an invaluable resource for anyone with a serious interest in Tonga and an indispensable volume for academic libraries, reference collections, and policy makers focused on the Pacific islands.
Author | : Newell C. Bringhurst |
Publisher | : Greg Kofford Books |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2004-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century.
Author | : Hokulani K. Aikau |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0816674612 |
How Native Hawaiians' experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
Author | : Patrick Q. Mason |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199358249 |
In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Mormonism is no longer merely a home-grown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West; instead, it has captured the attention of political pundits, Broadway audiences, and prospective converts around the world. While most scholarship on Mormonism concerns its colorful but now well-known early history, the essays in this collection assess recent developments, such as the LDS Church's international growth and acculturation; its intersection with conservative politics in recent decades; its stances on same-sex marriage and the role of women; and its ongoing struggle to interpret its own tumultuous history. The scholars draw on a wide variety of Mormon voices as well as those of outsiders, from Latter-day Saints in Hyderabad, India, to "Mormon Mommy blogs," to evangelical "countercult" ministries.
Author | : Thomas Reuter |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 192094270X |
This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.
Author | : Elizabeth Wood-Ellem |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : National characteristics, Tongan |
ISBN | : |
19 essays on Tonga past and present.
Author | : 'Esiteli Hafoka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
In this dissertation, I survey Tongan historical narratives, ethnographies, social media, and personal interviews to understand the role of religion in producing a Tongan American identity. In analyzing details from this survey, I identify the religious thread of angafakafonua (way of the land) as the process by which Tongans navigated their new American landscape in the 1950s and beyond. The thread of angafakafonua connects 19th c. Wesleyan Methodist Christianity, Tongan Mormonism, and Tongan Crip Gang members in Utah. My dissertation argues that religion is essential to understanding Tongan collective identity in America. Tongan Americans construct their ethnic and racial identities through the lens of religion--that is, Tongans navigate their racial identity in America through a religious epistemology. Indeed, for Tongan Americans, religion and race are co-constitutional: their religious and racial identities are created over and against each other.
Author | : Mike Evans |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2001-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0889209448 |
Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world’s few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system through markets and political relationships, in the last few decades emerging regional and global structures have had particularly intense and transformative effects. Today, because of greatly increased labour migration, people, money, and resources are in constant circulation among Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. In Persistence of the Gift, Evans provides a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of how, in spite of superficial appearances to the contrary, traditional Tongan values continue to play key roles in the way that Tongans make their way in the modern world. But this ethnography is neither that of a timeless “ethnographic present” nor of a remote coral atoll. Instead, like the inhabitants of Tonga themselves, the monograph begins in the islands, and works outward, tracing how Tongans seek to meet their own, culturally specific goals, within the constraints, challenges, and opportunities of the world system. Tongan culture, like our own, continues to transform in the face of global change, but the changes experienced by Tongans everywhere are patterned and managed by the values of Tongan agents. Both creative and conservative, the emerging transnationalist system continues to be discernibly and proudly Tongan.