Voyages : From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs, Second Edition /

In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and California in 2010. The author (whose role after t...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Small, Cathy A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Acculturation.
Emigration and immigration.
Tongans > Social conditions.
Tongans > United States.
History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author's Note
  • I. Departures
  • 1. Portrait of a Migrating Village
  • 2. Why Migrate?
  • II. Arrivals
  • 3. Coming to America
  • 4. One Family's Story
  • 5. Palu, the One Who Left
  • 6. An Anthropologist over Time
  • III. Returns
  • 7. Going Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990s
  • 8. Distant Family
  • 9. Finau, the One Who Stayed
  • 10. Tradition
  • IV. Travels Ahead
  • 11. The Meanings of Tongan Migration
  • 12. Anthropology in a Transnational World
  • V. Revisiting Globalization
  • 13. California Dreams
  • 14. Back to the Islands
  • 15. Reflections on and of Globalization
  • Appendix: Tongan Population and Migration Estimates
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Ejemplares similares