Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 301 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Small, Cathy Voyages
DDC:
973/.0499482
Keywords:
Acculturation
;
Tongans
;
Tongans Social conditions
;
Emigration and immigration
;
United States Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Portrait of a migrating village -- Why migrate? -- Coming to America -- One family's story -- Palu, the one who left -- An anthropologist over time -- Going home : Tongan village life in the 1990s -- Distant family -- Finau, the one who stayed -- Tradition -- The meanings of Tongan migration -- Anthropology in a transnational world -- California dreams -- Back to the islands -- Reflections on and of globalization -- Appendix : Tongan population and migration estimates
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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