Health, Culture, and Lifestyle in Contemporary Tonga:  With Particular Reference to Diabetes and Diet

Forde, Jacinta Maria

Health, Culture, and Lifestyle in Contemporary Tonga: With Particular Reference to Diabetes and Diet

dc.contributor.advisor	McCormack, Fiona
dc.contributor.author	Forde, Jacinta Maria
dc.date.accessioned	2016-08-04T02:42:17Z
dc.date.available	2016-08-04T02:42:17Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.date.updated	2015-12-13T21:35:37Z
dc.description.abstract	Over recent decades there has emerged a significant literature regarding the effects of development and globalisation on the culture of Pacific Islanders. It often has emphasised the alarming rate at which non-communicable diseases and related health complications have increased, presumably due to changes in lifestyles. The aim of this thesis is to report on a research project that investigated the contradictory effects that globalisation and development have had on the people of Tonga, particularly in respect to their way of life and how they negotiate the relationship between tradition and modernity. It is informed by a period of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken by the researcher with three families in Tonga, as well as unstructured interviews with members of the Tongan community in Tonga and New Zealand. The study especially explores the link between the shift away from traditional lifeways and increasing ill health, with a focus on the link between diabetes and diet, and more generally Tongan understandings of ‘health’ and non-communicable diseases and their treatments.
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dc.identifier.citation	Forde, J. M. (2015). Health, Culture, and Lifestyle in Contemporary Tonga: With Particular Reference to Diabetes and Diet (Thesis, Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10574	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10574
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Waikato
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dc.subject	Tonga
dc.subject	culture
dc.subject	health
dc.subject	lifestyles
dc.subject	non-communicable diseases
dc.subject	modernisation
dc.subject	tradition
dc.title	Health, Culture, and Lifestyle in Contemporary Tonga: With Particular Reference to Diabetes and Diet
dc.type	Thesis
pubs.place-of-publication	Hamilton, New Zealand	en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Waikato
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc)