Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love : : Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora / / Makiko Nishitani.
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships. Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love...
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Nishitani, Makiko, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love : Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora / Makiko Nishitani. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (204 p.) : 1 b&w illustration text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 “So Far Apart, Yet Too Connected”: The Tongan Social Field -- Chapter 2 Reterritorializing the Tongan Social Field: Melbourne -- Chapter 3 Boys Go, Girls Stay -- Chapter 4 Diasporic Gifts -- Chapter 5 Social Media in the Everyday Lives of Mothers and Daughters -- Chapter 6 Making Things Happen: Communication Flows and Diasporic Drama -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships. Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love challenges the conventional discourse on migration, which typically characterizes intergenerational changes from tradition to modernity, from relational to individual, and from obligation to autonomy and freedom. Rather, through an intimate examination of Tongan women’s everyday engagement with kinship relationships, Nishitani highlights how migrant women and their daughters born outside Tonga together create a field of relationships with kin and kin-like people, and navigate between individualistic, personal desires and familial duties and obligations. Their negotiations are not limited to a local frame of reference, but encompass vast distances, including relationships with relatives in places like Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the “home” island nation. Tongan women manage these relationships across diverse modes of communication: face-to-face interactions in homes and at church, lengthy telephone conversations on fixed phone lines in kitchens, and interactions on social media accessed on living room computers shared between neighboring households.Relationships between migrant mothers and second-generation daughters are suffused with warmth and empathy, as well as tensions and misunderstandings. Nishitani’s work demonstrates the critical contemporary relevance of classical anthropological kinship studies and gift theories as tools that can help us to understand transnationalism in the “digital” age. Through reflections on feminist geography, social theory of technology, Bourdieu’s field theory, and media studies, Nishitani makes a convincing call for anthropologists to use relationships rather than geographical places as a site of anthropological fieldwork in order to understand the sociality of diasporic people.Filled with rich, intimate portrayals of diasporic women’s everyday lives and the everyday politics of familial relationships, Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love will appeal to students and scholars of the anthropology of migration, of communication technologies and social media, and of gender and familial relationships, as well as to those interested in fieldwork methodology, transnational and migration studies, and Pacific studies. 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 27. Jan 2023) Mothers and daughters Australia. Tongans Australia Melbourne (Vic.) Communication Case studies. Tongans Australia Melbourne (Vic.) Social life and customs. Tongans-Australia-Melbourne (Vic.)-Social life and customs. Women foreign workers Family relationships Australia Melbourne (Vic.). SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2 9783110696295 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2020 English 9783110704723 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology, Education, Psychology 2020 9783110704549 ZDB-23-SEW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PP ROW Ebook Package English 2020 9783110696301 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110689624 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824883607?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824883607 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824883607/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 “So Far Apart, Yet Too Connected”: The Tongan Social Field -- Chapter 2 Reterritorializing the Tongan Social Field: Melbourne -- Chapter 3 Boys Go, Girls Stay -- Chapter 4 Diasporic Gifts -- Chapter 5 Social Media in the Everyday Lives of Mothers and Daughters -- Chapter 6 Making Things Happen: Communication Flows and Diasporic Drama -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
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