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Creating a nation with cloth : women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora. Ping-Ann Addo

Addo, Ping-Ann 2013, cop. 2013

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  • Titre:
    Creating a nation with cloth : women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora. Ping-Ann Addo
  • Titres liés: Collection :Asao studies in Pacific anthropology Texte imprimé general editor : Rupert Stasch New York, N.Y. Berghahn books 2013 4
  • Auteur: Addo, Ping-Ann
  • Éditeur: New Yor, N.Y. Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2013, cop. 2013
  • Sujets: Women -- Social conditions -- Tonga;
    Women -- Economic conditions -- Tonga;
    Textile fabrics -- Tonga;
    Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Tonga;
    Femmes -- Conditions économiques -- Tonga;
    Tonga -- Social life and customs;
    Tonga;
    Tonga -- Moeurs et coutumes
  • Notes: Bibliogr. p. 204-218. Index
  • Contient: 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
  • Résumé: 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 normative idea that nations are always geographically bounded or spatially contiguous. The work suggests that, contrary to prevalent understandings of globalization, global resource flows do not always primarily involve commodities. Focusing on first-generation Tongans in New Zealand and the relationships they forge across generations and throughout the diaspora, the book examines how these communities centralize the diaspora by innovating and adapting traditional cultural forms in unprecedented ways
  • Langue: Anglais
  • Date d'édition: 2013, cop. 2013
  • Identifiant: 978-0-85745-895-7 ; 0-85745-895-7 ; 978-0-85745-896-4 ; 0-85745-896-5
  • Desc. matérielle: 1 vol. (XII-227 p.) : couv. ill. en coul, ill. ; 25 cm
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