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Anthropology ProgramTongan History Association NewsletterVol.8 No.2, November 1997Conferences and Events'Atenisi Foundation for Performing Arts will be touring in Australia in January 1998, giving performances in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. The troupe relies on donations to cover their expenses so anyone wishing to donate can send their check or money order to 'Atenisi Ex-Students Association, 363 Liberty Road, Heidelberg West, Victoria 3081, Australia. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) will hold its next conference in Pensacola, Florida, February 4-7 1998. The ASAO website has more information: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki.html or contact the newsletter editor and secretary/treasurer, Jan Rensel, 2499 Kapiolani Blvd. #2403, Honolulu, Hawaii 96826-5317, email <rensel@hawaii.edu> Pacific History Association (PHA) conference for 1998 will be in Honiara, Solomon Islands, June 22-26. Conference co-conveners: Tom Waihere, Ruavatu College, PO Box 1371, Honiara, Solomon Islands, and Max Quanchi, School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology, Beams Rd., Carseldine, Queensland, Australia, email <m.quanchi@qut.edu.au>. There is also a conference homepage: http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/Centres/SouthPacific/PHA.html Association for Asian American Studies is calling for papers for its conference "Rethinking Asian and Pacific Colonial/Post-colonial Nations, Identities, and Histories" to be held in Honolulu, Hawai`i, June 24-28, 1998. Further information: http://www.aasp.cornell.edu or Asian American Studies Program, 420 Rockefeller Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853. Email: <aaasconference@cornell.edu> International Federation for Research in Women's History is holding a conference with the theme, "Women and human rights, social justice and citizenship; international historical perspectives", at the University of Melbourne, June 30-July2 1998. Professor Pat Grimshaw, co-convener, hopes to attract a number of delegates from the Pacific region to the conference. Her email address is <p.grimshaw@history.unimelb.edu.au> International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) will hold the Islands of the World V Conference in Mauritius, July 2-5 1998. ISISA is concerned with small-island related matters such as insularity, dependency, resource management, and so on. Their website has more information: <http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/Centres/SouthPacific/ISISA.html> or contact Prof. Theo Hills, President ISISA, Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St West, Montreal H3A 2K6 Canada, email <thills@felix.geog.mcgill.ca> PeopleRoger Cowell has moved to 44 Loughborough Avenue, Nottingham NG2 4LP, England. Phone: 0015 9501 156. Roger is planning a trip to Tonga, New Zealand and Australia early in 1998. Stephen Donald reports that he is holding lots of research notes on Tongan Anglican history up to 1940, if anyone is interested. Copies of his book In some sense the work of an individual on Alfred Willis and the Tongan Anglican Mission 1902-1920 are still available from Colcom Press, Red Beach, Orewa, North Auckland. Stephen's address is 776 Childers Road, Gisborne, New Zealand. Iwan Erichsson reports that he has requested the Royal Archives Department in Sweden support a microfilming project for Tongan archives. Also, a UN organisation ICCROM working on preservation of historic buildings and materials in Asia and the Pacific has shown some interest. Iwan is interested to hear of librarian exchange programs or positions in Australia or the South Pacific, or to hear of anyone needing assistance with filing, cataloguing and classifying Tongan written materials. He is very keen to see a National Archive set up in Tonga. Iwan's email address is <Iwan.Erichsson@bibul.slu.se> Makisi Finau was due to complete his Master of Theology in Pacific Church History in September, entitled "From house to house (Mei fale ki fale): the Tongan missionary teachers in Fiji mission (1835-1858)". The paper Makisi presented at the THA conference in January was taken from his B.D thesis, which was a history of the Maamafo`ou movement in Tonga (see below, Publications, for details). Makisi's address from November will be Rev. Makisi Finau, Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, PO Box 58, Nuku`alofa, Tonga. Gareth Grainger has been appointed as Deputy Chairman, Australian Broadcasting Authority, at Level 15, Darling Park, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney 2000. Phone: (02) 9334 7805, Fax (02) 9334 7968, email <gareth.grainger@aba.gov.au> Ngalu Havea, an ENT surgeon, went to Vaiola Hospital in Nuku`alofa with a team including an anaesthetist, nurse and audiologist, to provide ENT services from July 4-18 1997. Their trip was financed by AusAID and implemented through the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Ngalu reports that the team was ably supported by Dr Lei Sa`afi and Losa `Ali, and theatre staff. Dr Taniela Palu liaised. The Director of Health, Dr Laumeesi Malolo hosted a dinner for the team, who plan to make this a yearly visit provided funds are available. Kerry James spoke at the UNESCO Vaka Moana "Culture and Sustainability" conference in Suva, Fiji, in July 1997. Makani Markham has begun work on a Masters in Geography at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, and is interested in the involvement of Pacific Islanders in sports. Barbara McGrath has just received a grant from the U.S National Institutes of Health for a 5 year study entitled "HIV/AIDS Prevention and Pacific Islander Adolescents", and will be working with Tongans and Samoans in Seattle to study community issues and develop an adolescent health project. Arne (Alex) Perminow reports that he survived the ordeal of the public defence of his PhD thesis in March. As part of that process he gave two public lectures, one of which was entitled "'The other kind'. Conceiving the other and coping with one another on Kotu Island in Tonga". Alex is now Assistant Professor at Oslo University. New MembersClare Bleakley is in Tonga doing research for her PhD in anthropology, assessing the impact of development on Tongan women in the mid to late 1990s. Clare has also been doing some freelance consultancy work in development in Tonga, and has experience in the field having worked with a large Catholic NGO (Caritas Australia) based in Sydney. Clare's husband is working in Tonga as the Senior Crown Counsel with the Crown Law Department. Her contact address is PO Box 1771, Nuku`alofa, Tonga. Phone/Fax: (676) 25 404, email <bleakley@candw.to> Viliami Latu is a Masters student in Political Science at the University of Auckland. Viliami has a B.A from `Atenisi Institute and a Dip Arts from U. Auckland, and his research interests are constitutional changes in the Pacific, political developments in the Pacific, social and political theory and political economy. Helen Mavoa completed her Masters degree in anthropology earlier this year (see below in Theses) and will now commence her PhD, extending her M.A work to social interaction and children with a chronic illness and will also investigate physiological changes that occur with illness behaviours. Helen comes from twenty years of working as a paediatric physiotherapist in Fiji and New Zealand, and lecturing in social and motor aspects of child development as well as paediatrics. Her address is c/- Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, PO Box 92019, Auckland, NZ. Email: <hmm.antnov1.auckland.ac.nz> Michael Poltorak is a Medical Anthropology PhD student at University College, London. He reports that he will be going to Tonga towards the end of 1997 for at least 18 months, to look at "healing techniques of faito`avanga as they relate to the emotional and bodily experience of patients", focusing on their treatment of conditions explicitly related to the effects of modernisation. His address in London is Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 6BT, UK. Bradley Vaden is a student at the University of Hawai`i in Political Science. His address is: 1456 Thurston Ave, #202, Honolulu, Hawai`i 96822-3634, email <Vaden@hawaii.edu> Publications and Other ResourcesEustis, Nelson [The Tonga Chronicle reports he has published a biography of Tupou IV which should be available before the end of 1997: I have no further details] Fanua, Tupou Posesi, with Lois Wimberg Webster 1997 Malo Tupou: an oral history, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Distributed for Pasifika Press (NZ) outside the South Pacific. Feinberg, Richard and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (editors) 1997 Leadership and change in the Western Pacific, London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthopology Vol. 66. Finau, Makisi "The emergence of the Maamafo`ou movement from the Wesleyan Church of Tonga", in Foreman (editor) Island churches: challenges and change, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Flinn, Juliana, Leslie Marshall and Jocelyn Armstrong (editors) 1998 Field work and families: new models for ethnographic research, Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press. [Includes three chapters on fieldwork in Tonga, by Tamar Gordon, Heather Young Leslie, and Barbara McGrath] Helu, Futa 1997 "Tradition and good governance", State, Society and Governance discussion paper 97/3, Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Pacific and Asian History Department, Australian National University. James, Kerry 1997 "Political review: the Kingdom of Tonga 1995-6", The Contemporary Pacific 9(1):274-254. Meiser, Ute 1997 "Zur kulturellen Bedeutung des Vaters: Vergleichende Aspekte zum Umgang mit chronisch kranken und beeintrachtigten Kindern in Deutschland und Tonga" [On the cultural meaning of fathers: different aspects on intercourse with chronically ill and disabled children in Germany and Tonga] in Ute Meiser and Friedrich Albrecht (editors) Krankheit, behinderung und Kultur [Illness, disability and culture], pp.69-98. Frankfurt:Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation. *Translation of titles thanks to Thomas Malm. Mila, Vaka and Esmie Mila 1997? Tonga missionary heroes. This book on Tongan missionaries from 1829 has begun distribution in Tonga. Moimoi, Aneti 1977 Der Traum von den freundlichen Inseln [The Dream of the Friendly Islands] Switzerland: Tanner Verlag. Nau, Semisi, edited by Allan Davidson The story of my life: a Tongan missionary at Ontong Java. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, The University of the South Pacific, P.O. Box 1168. Pacific Studies Series Publications: Asian Development Bank series, including: Human resource development: small Pacific Island countries March 1995 Pollock, Nancy 1996 "Rethinking Western Polynesia: 'Uvea in the early Tongan empire", in J. Davidson, G. Irwin, B. Leach, A. Pawley and D. Brown (editors) Oceanic culture history: essays in honour of Roger Green pp.433-444. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication. Small, Cathy 1997 Voyages: from Tongan villages to American suburbs, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. St Cartmail, Keith 1997 The art of Tonga, Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press. Takau, Lilieta 1996 "Internal assessment: special studies in Tonga National Form 7" in papers from the Teaching the Pacific Forum (TTPF), Hilo, Hawai`i, July 8-13. Contact: Grant McCall on email <G.McCall@unsw.edu.au> MicrofilmThe Pacific Manuscripts Bureau has microfilmed the papers of THA's founding President, the late Rev. Dr Sione Latukefu. The reference number for the papers is PMB 1124 and the collection is entitled, "Rev. Dr Sione Latukefu: collected Tongan papers 1884-1965". The collection includes historical papers, papers of the Tongan Traditions Committee, personal letters, legends, church letters, and much more. VideoPacific Passages, a video introduction to the Pacific Islands, will soon be distributed on an exclusive basis by Media Guild at a new price of $240. Until then it will be available from the producer/directors, Wendy Arbeit and Carline Yacoe for $75 - so rush those orders in! Wendy's contact is <arbeitw@worldnet.att.net> ThesesCrawford, Chris 1997 Societal and Institutional Challenges Associated with Town Planning in Nuku`alofa, Tonga. PhD Thesis. ? University, USA. Evans, Mike 1996 Gifts and Commodities on a Tongan Atoll: Understanding Intention and Action in a MIRAB economy. PhD Thesis, McMaster University. Latu, Tevita 1996 Development of Land and Resource Management in the Kingdom of Tonga. PhD thesis, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Mavoa, Helen 1997 Taking Turns and Talking Back: Social Interaction in Tongan and Palangi Families in New Zealand. M.A Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Auckland University. Tongia, Semisi (thesis in progress) A Political History of Tonga: The Rise of the Pro-democracy Movement. M.A Thesis, History Department, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. THA Conference PapersAt the General Meeting held at the THA conference in January 1997, it was decided that an effort should be made to publish the papers from past THA conferences which have not yet been published. After some thought, the sub-committee pursuing this, Futa Helu, Phyllis Herda and Helen Morton, have decided that the quickest, simplest way to do this is to publish the papers as part of the THA homepage on the Internet. This will also make the papers readily accessible all over the world, and readers can download the papers they wish to keep. Some bound copies will be made to donate to educational institutions in Tonga. Accordingly, soon we will be contacting past conference organisers and participants to ask for their co-operation in this venture. We will not be asking people to revise their papers (unless they particularly wish to); the main aim is to make all those papers available at last. Internet - THA Members List on the HomepageThanks to the many members who have responded positively to the proposal to put a list of THA members on our homepage. I was unable to get the list done in September as planned but will begin work on it soon. For people with email addresses I will give only that as a contact address, and where applicable the name of the institution with which they are affiliated. Anyone not on email and who does not want their mail address to be on the list please contact me ASAP. Eventually I would like to expand this list by giving a brief note for each person about their interest in Tonga, publications, etc. Virtual Library of TongaThanks to those (2) people who have volunteered to help with the virtual library. This project may take some time to get off the ground, however I hope to make the first moves before the end of this year and will be in touch with the volunteers again then. More volunteers to help enter bibliographic data are welcome!! Useful Sites http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/region/spin/PACASSOC/TONGHIST/tonghist.htm - Tongan History Association homepage. http://www.pacificforum.com/tongahistory - Tongan History Association discussion forum [*very few THA members are making use of this - why not check it out and perhaps start up a discussion on a topic that interests you?] http://166.122.161.83/pireport.htm - Pacific Islands Report, a collaborative project of the East-West Center's Pacific Islands Development Program and the University of Hawai`i's Center for Pacific Island Studies, providing up to date news from and about the Pacific. http://www.usp.ac.fj/~gisunit/pacatlas/atlas.htm - the GIS Atlas of the South Pacific, set up by the University of the South Pacific . http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/spin/RSRC/PMB - The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau is a new addition to the South Pacific Information Network. THA ExecutivePresident: Professor Futa Helu, Director, `Atenisi Institute, PO Box 90, Nuku`alofa, Tonga Vice-President: Dr Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, 28 View St, Alphington 3078, Victoria, Australia. E-mail: eowe@rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au Secretary-Treasurer (Tonga): Ms Salote Fukofuka, USP Centre, PO Box 278, Nuku`alofa, Tonga. E-mail: salote@tonga.usp.ac.fj Secretary-Treasurer (Overseas) / Newsletter Editor: Dr Helen Morton, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Victoria, Australia. E-mail: H.Morton@latrobe.edu.au Fax: (03) 9749-2705. Committee members: Mrs 'Eseta Fusitu`a, Prime Minister's Office, PO Box 62, Nuku`alofa, Tonga; Mrs Meredith Filihia, 6/18-20 Rosanna Rd, Heidelberg 3081, Victoria, Australia. PAYMENT OF DUES: When sending dues please address checks or money orders to the Tongan History Association, except for those sending to the USA rep., in which case send payable to Adrienne Kaeppler. Dues are $10 per year or $35 per five years for salaried members, and $5 per year and $18 per five years for students/unsalaried members (all amounts in the currency of your country). The financial year runs from July to June. Dues can be sent to any of the following THA representatives: Tonga: Salote Fukofuka (see above) New Zealand: Edgar Tu'inukuafe, 36 Sequoia Place, Sunnynook, Auckland 1310, N.Z. USA: Dr Adrienne Kaeppler, Department of Anthopology, National Museum of Natural History MRC 112, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560. Europe: Dr Paul van der Grijp, Weezenhof 67-55, 6536 BG Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Australia: Helen Morton (see above) Call for contributorsMany thanks to all who sent in information for this newsletter. Readers are invited to contribute to the next newsletter, planned for May 1998. Brief book reviews, news of current research, details of recent published or unpublished material on Tonga or Tongans overseas, requests for information, or any other relevant item will be most welcome. Please send these items to Helen Morton ( address above). *THA logo thanks to 'Alopi Sione Latukefu, from the THA discussion forum site. Return to Newsletter Index Content Approved by: Head of School
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