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Voyages : From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801463259
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: VoyagesDDC classification:
  • 973/.0499482
LOC classification:
  • GN671.T5.S635 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Voyages -- 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.
Summary: In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition shows how immigration and globalization have affected family, economy, tradition, and identity.
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Voyages -- 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.

In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition shows how immigration and globalization have affected family, economy, tradition, and identity.

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