Voyages : : From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs, Second Edition /

Voyages : : From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs, Second Edition / / Cathy A. Small.

In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and California in 2010. The author (whose role after t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Small, Cathy A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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