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From Tongan Meeting House to Samoan Chapel

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dc.contributor.author S. BARNES, SHAWN
dc.contributor.author C. GREEN, ROGER
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-10T01:29:21Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-10T01:29:21Z
dc.date.issued 2008-06
dc.identifier.citation DOI: 10.1080/00223340802054594 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0022-3344
dc.identifier.issn 1469-9605
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1633
dc.description 28 pages : PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract While evidence for a strong, long-standing, and direct connection between Samoa and Tonga before European contact is well known, this paper provides a case study of Samoa–Tonga interaction by indigenous agency. It shows that the Samoan fale afolau (long house) is convincingly interpreted as an historic introduction from Tonga, with Samoan modification, which served as an early Christian chapel design. A Tongan origin for the fale afolau is an especially contested viewpoint in present-day S amoa, where many consider it to be a truly indigenous design. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This work was funded, in part, by a Foreign Language Area Study (FLAS) fellowship from the University of Hawai‘i en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher The Journal of Pacific History en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 43;No. 1
dc.subject Tongan, Meeting House, Samoan Chapel, fale tele, fale Samoa, Fale afolau en_US
dc.title From Tongan Meeting House to Samoan Chapel en_US
dc.title.alternative A Recent Tongan Origin for the Samoan Fale Afolau en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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