Royal funerals, ritual stones and participatory networks in the maritime Tongan state

Clark, Geoffrey; Leclerc, Mathieu; Parton, Phillip; Reepmeyer, Christian; Grono, Elle; Burley, David V.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101115

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“…In parallel with the use of the concept of behaviour as performance, the findings also show the use of the concept as background or factor. In 10% of the cases, human behaviour is mentioned as the publication background, referring, for instance, to past behaviours of a community in the scope of archaeological research [70]. In 19% of the cases, behaviour is recognised as a factor that can influence the findings.…”

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Going beyond Good Intentions for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review

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This research addresses the performance gap between intentions towards a sustainable conservation of built heritage and its actual implementation. Socio-psychological models of human behaviour, such as the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), have been studying this dissonance between intention and behaviour, and allow to recognise latent critical factors. This paper provides a systematic literature review of research publications on the intersection of the topics of human behaviour, heritage, and sustainability. It aims to analyse how the TPB has been used in the field of sustainable conservation of built heritage. The studies are categorised according to the type of heritage, main actors targeted, aims, and methodology. A total of 140 publications were analysed. The results show a recent field of research. In the domain of built heritage conservation, behaviour is commonly addressed as a synonym of performance, targeting the building itself. Most publications relating socio-psychological constructs of behaviour and heritage sustainability can be found in the tourism and hospitality field, focusing on tourists’ and residents’ behaviours. The review shows that practitioners are still absent from the literature. However, research addressing other stakeholders shows that the theoretical framework can play an important role in the implementation of sustainable conservation practices in the built heritage.

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Going beyond Good Intentions for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Coconut oil has a place in death rite rituals in the Pacific, both before burial and after (Alefosio & Henderson, 2018;Cunningham, 1992;Stevens, 2018) Although oil degrades, archaeological records show that the practice of decorating Tongan graves with kilikili is nearly 700 years old; and isotopic evidence shows that the volcanic rocks selected to decorate graves have come from as far away as Sāmoa (Clark et al, 2020). Records of specific royal and chiefly funerals discuss the momentous lengths whole communities, and even the majority of Tongan subjects, went through to produce funerary materials and rights (Clark et al, 2020). Historically, kilikili decorated the graves of the Tongan royal or chiefly class exclusively.…”

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“…Historically, kilikili decorated the graves of the Tongan royal or chiefly class exclusively. But since the 1980s the ritual has expanded to Tongan commoners which has diversified the way it's practiced (Clark et al, 2020). The ceremony originally marked the end of a one-hundred-day mourning period, called pō teau, during which Tongans throughout the Kingdom were obliged to abide by intensified tapu restrictions (Clark et al, 2020).…”

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“…But since the 1980s the ritual has expanded to Tongan commoners which has diversified the way it's practiced (Clark et al, 2020). The ceremony originally marked the end of a one-hundred-day mourning period, called pō teau, during which Tongans throughout the Kingdom were obliged to abide by intensified tapu restrictions (Clark et al, 2020). The consumption of certain foods and commodities were prohibited as were joyous activities like public singing and dancing in order to demonstrate respect for the recently departed (Clark et al, 2020).…”

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“…The ceremony originally marked the end of a one-hundred-day mourning period, called pō teau, during which Tongans throughout the Kingdom were obliged to abide by intensified tapu restrictions (Clark et al, 2020). The consumption of certain foods and commodities were prohibited as were joyous activities like public singing and dancing in order to demonstrate respect for the recently departed (Clark et al, 2020). After the mourning period was observed, representatives of the deceased's family and members of designated clans brought kilikili to their loved one's grave (Clark et al, 2020).…”

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The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific

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The Pacific Islands offer a variety of marine environments providing peoples in the present and past with abundant coral materials, a "stone from the sea". Archaeologists have long recognised the importance of coral in ancient contexts, whether as gravel, natural branches, squared blocks or cut-and-dress slabs. Coral was also used to manufacture tools such as files or pounders and incorporated in monumental ceremonial architecture as a favoured construction material and foundation offerings. However, Pacific Islanders also employed coral material for other ritual applications that remain overlooked in the literature. In this article, we consider the multiple uses of coral in the archaeological and ethnographic records of three Pacific regions: Central-East Polynesia (CEP), New Caledonia and the Torres Strait Islands. This includes offering of coral branches, sometimes associated with cairns, paraphernalia and magic stones, also production of coral lime for body ornamentation. Using these case studies, we consider material selection, modes of deposition, archaeological and ethnographic contexts, associations with other features and artefacts, before interrogating the potential significance of these unrealised datasets. By doing so, we shed new light on the ritual value of coral and reflect on the symbolic nature and function of this material.

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Royal funerals, ritual stones and participatory networks in the maritime Tongan state

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