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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Addo, Ping-Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Women > Tonga > Social conditions.
Women > Tonga > Economic conditions.
Textile fabrics > Tonga.
Femmes > Tonga > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Tonga > Conditions économiques.
Textiles et tissus > Tonga.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Manners and customs
Textile fabrics
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Diaspora.
Culturele identiteit.
Tonganen.
Vrouwen.
Tonga > Social life and customs.
Tonga > Mœurs et coutumes.
Tonga
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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