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

• Autores: David V. Burley
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 68, Nº 260, 1994, págs. 504-517
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.