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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Addo, Ping-Ann
Titre(s) : Creating a nation with cloth [Texte imprimé] : women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora / Ping-Ann Addo
Publication : New York : Berghahn Books, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 227 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 4
Lien à la collection : ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-218) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Tonga
Femmes -- Conditions économiques -- Tonga
Moeurs et coutumes -- Tonga
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780857458957 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0857458957 (hardback) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780857458964 (ebook). - ISBN 0857458965 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43630171b
Notice n° :
FRBNF43630171
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