Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-16T09:51:41.977Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

As a prescription to rule: the royal tomb of Mala'e Lahi and 19th-century Tongan kingship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David V. Burley
David V. Burley*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The tangled dynastic history of Tonga, celebrated kingdom of western Polynesia, offers a rare chance to study the place of monumental burial-places in a chieftains’ society. Disentangling the story, at a remove of not many centuries, is not a simple business.

Type
Papers
Information
Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 260 , September 1994 , pp. 504 - 517
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Beaglehole, J.C. (ed.). 1967. The journals of Captain fames Cook on his voyages of discovery. The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776–1780. Parts 1&2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society.Google Scholar
Bott, E. 1982. Tongan society at the time of Captain Cook’s visits: discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salóte Tupou. Wellington: The Polynesian Society. Memoir 44.Google Scholar
Burley, D.V. 1991. Archaeological research in the Ha’apai Islands, kingdom of Tonga: a report on the 1990 field season. Unpublished manuscript on file, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fräser University, Burnaby.Google Scholar
Burley, D.V. 1992. Archaeological research in the Ha’apai Islands, kingdom of Tonga: activities of the 1991 field season. Unpublished manuscript on file, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.Google Scholar
Burley, D.V. 1993. Chiefly prerogatives over critical resources: archaeology, oral traditions and symbolic landscapes in the Ha’apai Islands, kingdom of Tonga, in Jamieson, R. Abonyi, S. & Mirau, N. (ed.), Culture and environment: a fragile co-existence: 437–43. Calgary: University of Calgary Archaeological As-sociation.Google Scholar
Burley, D.V. In press. Settlement pattern and Tongan prehistory: reconsiderations from Ha’apai, Journal of the Polynesian Society Google Scholar
Campbell, I.C. 1989. Classical Tongan kingship. Nuku’lofa: Government Printing Department.Google Scholar
Campbell, I.C. 1992. Island kingdom, Tonga ancient and modern. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.Google Scholar
Churchward, CM. 1959. Tongan dictionary. Nuku’alofa: Government Printing Press.Google Scholar
Collocott, E.E.V. 1924. An experiment in Tongan history, Journal of the Polynesian Society 33: 166–84.Google Scholar
Davidson, J.M. 1979. Samoa and Tonga, in Jennings, J. (ed.), The prehistory of Polynesia: 82–109. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Gailey, C.W. 1987. Kinship to kingship: gender hierarchy and state formation in the Tongan Islands. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press.Google Scholar
Gifford, E.W. 1923. Tongan place names. Honolulu (HI): Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Bulletin 6Google Scholar
Gifford, E.W. 1924. Tongan myths and tales. Honolulu (HI): Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Bulletin 8.Google Scholar
Gifford, E.W. 1929. Tongan society. Honolulu (HI): Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Bulletin 61.Google Scholar
Kirch, P.V. 1980. Burial structures and societal ranking in Vava’u, Tonga, Journal of the Polynesian Society 89: 291–308.Google Scholar
Kirch, P.V. 1984. The evolution of the Polynesian chiefdoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Kirch, P.V. 1988. Niuatoputapu: the prehistory of a Polynesian chiefdom. Seattle (WA): Burke Museum. Monograph 5.Google Scholar
Kirch, P.V. 1990. Monumental architecture and power in Polynesian chiefdoms: a comparison of Tonga and Hawaii, World Archaeology 22(2): 206–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Latukefu, S. 1974. Church and state in Tonga. Canberra: Australian National University Press.Google Scholar
Marcus, G. 1980. The nobility and the chiefly tradition in modern Tonga. Wellington: Polynesian Society. Memoir 42.Google Scholar
Martin, J. 1991. Tonga Islands, William Mariner’s account. 5th edition. Tonga: Vava’u Press.Google Scholar
McKern, W.C. 1929. Archaeology of Tonga. Honolulu (HI): Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Bulletin 60.Google Scholar
Powles, G. 1990. The early accommodation of traditional and English law in Tonga, in Herda, P. J., Terrell & Gunson, N. (ed.), Tongan culture and history: 145–69. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.Google Scholar
Rutherford, N. 1971. Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Spenneman, D.H. 1988. Pathways to the Tongan past. Nuku’alofa: Tongan National Centre.Google Scholar
Stuiver, M. & Pearson, G.W. 1993. High precision bidecadal calibration of the radiocarbon time scale. AD 1950-500 BC, Radiocarbon 35(1): 1–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wood, A.H. 1975. Overseas missions of the Australian Methodist Churchl: Tonga, Samoa. Melbourne: Aldergate Press.Google Scholar