After a large presentation of the social, political, economic and religious traditional system of the Tongan islands, the thesis focus on the study of genuine exploitation of the halieutic resources: technical aspects as ritual ones. The study of those fishing technics, tied to the imaginary shows that certain species of fishes, in certain villages, are treated as social partners assimilated as chiefs or gods. We are here in front of an example of the "total social fact" described by M. Mauss which throw in economic, social and religious genuine institutions. The rituals tied to the fishing technics result in strengthening the power of local customary chiefs - in reproducing the traditional political and social structure - they work on the ...
International audienceThis chapter analyses conditions and forms of authority in Wallis (Western Pol...
Patrick V. Kirch and Roger C. Green proposed that Polynesian cultures today emerged and developed in...
The shark is all-important in the Pacific. Rarely seen as an ordinary fish, it is often thought of a...
After a large presentation of the social, political, economic and religious traditional system of th...
This thesis examines Tongan traditional history, tala-e-fonua, a vernacular ecology-centred histori...
Social policy has developed as a discipline since the 1940s, with the coming of the modern welfare s...
Within the general context of an ethno-archaeological study of the fishing technics of times past in...
This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social ...
Although it is said to be « traditional », the Polynesian society of Wallis Island has always been c...
For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/Policy decisions about commu...
This article begins with a detailed ethnographic description of a specific ritual event, namely the ...
This study of traditional Tongan political history focuses on how Tongan genealogies and succession...
Taking advantage of an official ten day cruise (August 1974) in the archipelago of the Tonga Islands...
Une des caractéristiques des traditions orales polynésiennes tient à l’importance qu’y occupent les ...
Sea Fishers, Land Fishers. The Sea in Tongan Thought On the Tonga Islands, relations with physical...
International audienceThis chapter analyses conditions and forms of authority in Wallis (Western Pol...
Patrick V. Kirch and Roger C. Green proposed that Polynesian cultures today emerged and developed in...
The shark is all-important in the Pacific. Rarely seen as an ordinary fish, it is often thought of a...
After a large presentation of the social, political, economic and religious traditional system of th...
This thesis examines Tongan traditional history, tala-e-fonua, a vernacular ecology-centred histori...
Social policy has developed as a discipline since the 1940s, with the coming of the modern welfare s...
Within the general context of an ethno-archaeological study of the fishing technics of times past in...
This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social ...
Although it is said to be « traditional », the Polynesian society of Wallis Island has always been c...
For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/Policy decisions about commu...
This article begins with a detailed ethnographic description of a specific ritual event, namely the ...
This study of traditional Tongan political history focuses on how Tongan genealogies and succession...
Taking advantage of an official ten day cruise (August 1974) in the archipelago of the Tonga Islands...
Une des caractéristiques des traditions orales polynésiennes tient à l’importance qu’y occupent les ...
Sea Fishers, Land Fishers. The Sea in Tongan Thought On the Tonga Islands, relations with physical...
International audienceThis chapter analyses conditions and forms of authority in Wallis (Western Pol...
Patrick V. Kirch and Roger C. Green proposed that Polynesian cultures today emerged and developed in...
The shark is all-important in the Pacific. Rarely seen as an ordinary fish, it is often thought of a...