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...sign of homicide." The victim's head was boiled in a special pot to release the flesh and tendons. Then, after it had been appropriately adorned, it would be displayed alongside the heads of ancestors. Head-hunting is no longer practiced - it was firmly discouraged by the first Christian missionaries - so the remaining skulls have particular significance as a record of a vanished era. While the rituals and ceremonies associated with the ancestor and warrior cults are still performed in secret, says Garnier, "the skulls have not been well protected...
...were killed; the others fled. Vason, a young bricklayer, saved himself, he wrote, by assuming "the revolting customs of a savage life." Far from banning anything, "I entered, with the utmost eagerness, into every pleasure and entertainment of the natives, and endeavored to forget that I had left a Christian land to evangelize the heathen...
...more closely to their brief, and to have frowned on a pastime in which men and women, boys and girls - almost certainly naked - cavorted in the surf. It's thought that the missionaries convinced the chiefs that fanifo was corrupting Tongan youth and didn't belong in a budding Christian society, and that the chiefs placed on the sport a tapu, or ban. "This is, to some extent, speculation," says Po'oi Puloka, secretary general of the Tonga Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (tasanoc), "but it's more than likely what happened." (The banning of a sport...
...excited and optimistic about China 's new, enhanced role on the global stage. But others expressed concern that this might be bad news for the West More effort should be put into understanding the Chinese mind-set. It is naive to think that any conflict with Western or Christian ethics is a result of the Communist Party. The major contribution of the Communist Party to Chinese culture is an organized platform that has the ability to enforce opinions. For millenniums, Chinese culture has revered power and ignored the plight of the underdog. The Chinese respect strength but if threatened will...
...ruling spd. If the cdu does win, the strength of Linkspartei.pds in the east could make the party's majority so slim that it's forced into a coalition with the spd. The result: political stalemate. "It could be that the balance of power is even narrower," says Christian Pestalozza, a law professor at Berlin's Free University...