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Subject(s)

• Tongans—Hawaii—Maui—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Tongans—Material culture—Hawaii—Maui [Browse]
• Ethnophilosophy—Tonga [Browse]

Writer of foreword

• Māhina, ʻOkusitino [Browse]

Series

• First peoples (2010) [More in this series]
• First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Summary note

"This book explores how Tongan cultural practices conflict with and coexist within Hawaiian society"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.

Contents

• Talateu = Introduction
• Mediating the conflicting times-spaces of Maui
• Indigenous time and space
• Theorizing tā-vā
• Researching as a communal concept and practice
• Reconnecting Tonga and Hawaiʻi
• The art of symmetrical sociospatial relations
• "Seeking self-praise impoverishes one's kin"
• Tātuku = Concluding note
• Appendix: Selected Tongan terms and proverbs.

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Other title(s)

Tongan art of sociospatial relations

ISBN

• 9780816530564 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
• 0816530564 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2017007698

OCLC

991535881

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