Sione Lātūkefu

Sione Lātūkefu

Reverend Dr. [ [http://www.pmo.gov.to/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=95 "HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita opens Tonga Research Society conference 2007"] , official website of the Tongan government, July 11, 2007] Sione Lātūkefu (born ?, died June 2, 1995 [ [http://books.google.fr/books?id=FoeqNDIEC7YC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=%22Sione+Latukefu%22&source=web&ots=y_C3N-4vFz&sig=krWzZC_TSNlVg-sw7DHiNMOwQUc&hl=fr&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result "The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific"] , Doug Munro & Andrew Thornley (eds.), 1996, ISBN 9820201268] ) was a Tongan historian.

Lātūkefu obtained the degree of Bachelor of Education at the University of Queensland in 1962. [ [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-http%253A%252F%252Fnaa12.naa.gov.au%252Fscripts%252FSearchOld.asp%253FO%253DPSI2%2526Number%253D8893924 National Library of Australia] ] He later obtained a doctorate. [ [http://www.pmo.gov.to/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=95 "HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita opens Tonga Research Society conference 2007"] , official website of the Tongan government, July 11, 2007]

He was the first professional historian in Tonga, and, in 1989, founded the Tongan History Association to encourage studies of Tongan history. [ [http://www.geocities.com/paideusis/n1mpth.html "The Tongan History Association"] , Helen Morton, "Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies", June 1998] He was also "instrumental" in establishing the Tonga Research Society. [ [http://www.pmo.gov.to/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=95 "HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita opens Tonga Research Society conference 2007"] , official website of the Tongan government, July 11, 2007]

Bibliography

* "Church and State in Tonga : The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Political Development, 1822-1875", Australian National University Press, 1974, ISBN 0708104029
* "The Tongan Constitution: A brief history to celebrate its centenary", Tonga Traditions Committee Publication, 1975, ASIN B0000EDZOX
* "Papua New Guinea: A Century of Colonial Impact, 1884-1984", University of Papua New Guinea, 1989, ISBN 9980750227
* "Tonga at Independence and Now", in Brij Lal & Hank Nelson (eds.), "Lines Across the Sea: Colonial Inheritance in the Post Colonial Pacific", Brisbane: Pacific History Association, 1995, ISBN 0646246402; (posthum.)
* "Pacific Islander Missionaries", "in" Doug Munro & Andrew Thornley (eds.), "The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific", 1996, ISBN 9820201268; (posthum.)
* "The Impact of the British on the Tongan Traditional Concept of Justice and Law", "in" Hermann J. Hiery & John M. MacKenzie (eds.), "European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Colonial Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response", 1997, ISBN 1860640591; (posthum.)

External links

* [http://www.planet-tonga.com/HRDMT/Articles/Convention_92/Sione_Latukefu.shtml "The History of the Tongan Constitution"] , Sione Lātūkefu, on the website of the Human Rights and Democracy Movement
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/anthropology/tonga/vol4-1.html "Letter from the President"] (Sione Lātūkefu), "Tongan History Association Newsletter", vol.4, n°1, January 1993, La Trobe University department of Anthropology

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