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Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Social life and customs, Genealogy, Nobility, Folklore		Gerber, Tisina Wolfgramm. The Iohani and Salote Wolfgramm papers. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2003	Tonga, Samoa
Social life and customs, History		Thomson, Basil. The diversions of a prime minister. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978	Tonga
Social life and customs, History	1616-1810	Ferdon, Edwin N. Early Tonga: as the explorers saw it 1616-1810. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1987	Tonga
Social life and customs		Bain, Kenneth. The friendly islanders: a story of Queen Salote and her people. [London, England]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967	Tonga
Social life and customs	1936-1958	Ashton, Arden; Ashton, Lorraine Morton; Ashton, Scott. Pictures of Tonga 1936-1958. [Salt Lake City, Utah?: s.n.], 2003	Tonga
Social life and customs		Gifford, Edward Winslow. Tongan society. New York, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971	Tonga
Social life and customs, History	1616-1810	Ferdon, Edwin N. Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw it 1616-1810. The University of Arizona Press, 1987	Tonga
Social life and customs, History		Colson, Elizabeth. KARIBA STUDIES The Social Organization of the Gwembe Tonga. Manchester University Press, 1960	Tonga
Social life and customs, History, Politics		Velsen, J. Van. The Politics of Kinship: A Study in Social Manipulation Among the Lakeside Tonga of Nyasaland. Manchester University Press, 1964	Tonga
Social life and customs, History, Politics		Colson, Elizabeth. The Social Consequences of Resettlement: The Impact of the Kariba Resettlement Upon the Gwembe Tonga. University of Hawaii Press, 2001	Tonga
Social life and customs, History, Nobility	1900-1965	Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth. Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965. University of Hawaii Press, 1999	Tonga
Social life and customs, Migration		Van Velsen, J. Labor Migration as a Positive Factor in the Continuity of Tonga Tribal Society. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1960	Tonga
Social life and customs		Colson, Elizabeth. The Plateau Tonga. University of Manchester Press, 1962	Tonga
Social life and customs		Lawson, Stephanie. Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. Cambridge University Press. 1996	Tonga, Fiji, Western Samoa
Social life and customs, Church	1822–1875	Latukefu, Sione. Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Political Development, 1822–1875. Pacific Studies Series	Tonga
Social life and customs, Migration	Modern	Maron, Nicole; Connell, John. Back to Nukunuku: Employment, identity and return migration in Tonga. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2008	Tonga
Social life and customs, Classes	Modern	Niko Besnier. Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Emergence of Middle Classes in Tonga. University of Hawai'i Press, 2009	Tonga
Social life and customs, Economics	Modern	Besnier, Niko. Consumption and Cosmopolitanism: Practicing Modernity at the Second-Hand Marketplace in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research, 2004	Tonga
Social life and customs, Manners		Ledyard, Patricia. Tonga; a tale of the Friendly Islands. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956	Tonga
Social life and customs, History, Art		St. Cartmail, Robert Keith. The art of Tonga = Ko e ngaahi'aati'o Tonga. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1997	Tonga
Social life and customs, History, Music, Dance		Linkels, Ad. Sounds of change in Tonga: dance music and cultural dynamics in a Polynesian kingdom. Tilburg, The Netherlands: Mundo Étnico, 1998	Tonga
Social life and customs, History		Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth. Tonga and the Tongans: heritage and identity. Alphington, Vic.: Tonga Research Association, 2007	Tonga
Social life and customs, History		Runeborg, Ruth E. The Kingdom of Tonga: History, culture and communication. [Honolulu]: East-West Center, 1980	Tonga
Social life and customs, Manners, History		Steen, Tangikina Moimoi; Drescher, Nancy L. land, sea, and people. Tonga: Tonga Research Association, 2011	Tonga
Social life and customs, Manners, History		Urbanowicz, Charles F. Change in rank and status in the polynesian kingdom of Tonga. [The Hague], 1975	Tonga
Social life and customs, Women, Economics		Small, Cathy A. Women's associations and their pursuit of wealth in Tonga: a study in social change. Ph. D. Temple University Disertation, 1987	Tonga
Social life and customs		Huntsman, Judith. Tonga and Samoa: images of gender and polity. Christchurch, N.Z.: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 1995	Tonga, Samoa