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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- 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