No Family Is an Island : Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora /

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Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gershon, Ilana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Samoans > Social conditions.
Samoan Americans > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Samoans > Nouvelle-Zelande > Conditions sociales.
Americains d'origine samoane > Californie > Conditions sociales.
Samoans > New Zealand > Social conditions.
Samoan Americans > California > Social conditions.
Samoa.
New Zealand.
California.
Californie > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
New Zealand > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
California > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Samoa > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exchanging while not-knowing
  • The moral economies of conversion
  • When culture is not a system
  • Legislating families as cultural
  • Constructing choice, compelling culture.

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