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Creating a nation with cloth : women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora /

Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation - fonua - which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Addo, Ping-Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Nation, cloth, and diaspora : locating langa fonua
  • Migration, tradition, and barkcloth : authentic innovations in textile gifts
  • Gender, materiality, and value : Tongan women's cooperatives in New Zealand
  • Women, roots, and routes : life histories and life paths
  • Gender, kinship, and economics : transacting in prestige and complex ceremonial gifts
  • Cash, death, and diaspora : when koloa won't do
  • Church, cash, and competition : multi-centrism and modern religion
  • Conclusion. Moving, dwelling, and transforming spaces.