Creating a nation with cloth [[electronic resource] ] : women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora / / Ping-Ann Addo
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Addo Ping-Ann
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Creating a nation with cloth [[electronic resource] ] : women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora / / Ping-Ann Addo
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.4099612 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Tonga - Social conditions |
| Women - Tonga - Economic conditions | |
| Textile fabrics - Tonga | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Tonga Social life and customs |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-218) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Nation, Cloth, Diaspora: Locating Langa Fonua; Chapter 1 - Migration, Tradition, and Barkcloth: Authentic Innovations in Textile Gifts; Chapter 2 - Gender, Materiality, and Value: Tongan Women's Cooperatives in New Zealand; Chapter 3 - Women, Roots, and Routes: Life Histories and Life Paths; Chaper 4 - Gender, Kinship, and Economics: Transacting in Prestige and Complex Ceremonial Gifts; Chapter 5 - Cash, Death, and Diaspora: When Koloa Won't Do; Chapter 6 - Church, Cash, and Competition: Multicentrism and Modern Religion |
| Conclusion - Moving, Dwelling, and Transforming SpacesGlossary of Polynesian Terms; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 nation-building. Utilizing the concept of the "multi-territorial nation," the author questions the notion that living in diaspora is mutually exclusive with authentic cultural production and identity. The globalized nation the women build through gifting their barkcloth and fine mats, challenges the no |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Creating a nation with cloth |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-896-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779840403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology