No Family Is an Island : : Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora / / Ilana Gershon.
Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island,...
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Gershon, Ilana, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut No Family Is an Island : Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora / Ilana Gershon. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Exchanging While Not-Knowing -- 2. The Moral Economies of Conversion -- Part II -- Introduction: Some Political and Historical Context -- 3. When Culture Is Not a System -- 4. Legislating Families as Cultural -- 5. Constructing Choice, Compelling Culture -- Conclusion -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories "cultural" and "acultural" become relevant for Samoans as they encounter cultural differences in churches, ritual exchanges, welfare offices, and community-based organizations.In both New Zealand and the United States, Samoan migrants are minor minorities in an ethnic constellation dominated by other minority groups. As a result, they often find themselves in contexts where the challenge is not to establish the terms of the debate but to rewrite them. To navigate complicated and often unyielding bureaucracies, they must become skilled in what Gershon calls "reflexive engagement" with the multiple social orders they inhabit. Those who are successful are able to parlay their own cultural expertise (their "Samoanness") into an ability to subtly alter the institutions with which they interact in their everyday lives. Just as the "cultural" is sometimes constrained by the forces exerted by acultural institutions, so too can migrant culture reshape the bureaucracies of their new countries. Theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable, No Family Is an Island contributes significantly to our understanding of the modern immigrant experience of making homes abroad. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Samoan Americans Social conditions California. Samoan Americans California Social conditions. Samoans Social conditions New Zealand. Samoans New Zealand Social conditions. Anthropology. Sociology & Social Science. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801450785 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464027 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801464027 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801464027/original |
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