I suggest that anthropologists, although they are considered 'social scientists', work rather with the notions of culture and society which, in the case of more recent
Tongan history, overlap with that of the nation-state.
The quake woke residents in Nuku'alofa, located on the island of Tongatapu, some of whom ran outside, according to the
Tongan news website Matangi Tonga Online.
The ceremony replaced the normal
Tongan graveyard burial and suggested that the government will not try to recover bodies of remaining victims, although it has not formally announced that it has ended those efforts.
It uses indicators derived from the New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings to describe changes in wellbeing for Samoan, Cook Island,
Tongan and Niuean households over the period 1981--2006.
She writes in the poem "Fonu": "fleeing tall glass cities / in search of fonua / only to find yourself / foreign." Fonua is the elusive
Tongan word for "land" but also the word for a land's connection to its people and, in a deeper sense, the link it offers individuals to one another.
Halavatau was back to his powerful best in the EDF Energy National Trophy victory over Launceston and even though Earnshaw has Jim Jenner to come back in, he feels the
Tongan deserves to keep his place.
But quick tries by Sukanaivalu Hufanga and Viliami Vaki helped the
Tongans to a valuable losers' bonus point.
Census, are 1.5 million Filipinos, 325,000 Vietnamese, 300,000 Chinese, 285,000 Indians, 74,000 Koreans, 48,000 Guamanians, 31,000 Japanese, 20,000 Samoans and 4,000
Tongans.
Later, sunset will slosh its bucket of lava across the
Tongan sky.
It is time now to look more closely at the notion of social networks creating the robust partnership and practice between
Tongan parents, their children, and Mt.
FlyNiu, the
Tongan airline forced to shut down its operations due to a new government policy on domestic airlines, has said it will fight the revocation of its licence.
This paper examines the notion of reconstituting study clinics to promote and sustain the education of
Tongan migrant students in New Zealand, describing a project that illustrates how to reconstitute the notion of a clinic and highlighting political, social, and cultural aspects of
Tongan ways of thinking and acting that can be engaged to theorize about pedagogical and educational approaches pertinent to
Tongan secondary students.
Forget chocolate and ice cream,
Tongan children stuff themselves with whole loaves of bread split lengthwise, crammed with ice cream and soaked in syrup.
