Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

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Title

Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

ISBN

9780857458964

Author

by Ping-Ann Addo

Series

ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Publication Date

30 June 2013

Format

PDF

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Number of Pages

252

Filesize

3.70 MB

Interest Age

19+ years ^(19-99)

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Popular Culture & Media: General Interest

ONIX Text

Professional and scholarly

Reviews

"The book compellingly demonstrates how women, textile wealth and tradition are enmeshed... [and] adds considerably to the understanding of how material culture works in a contemporary society and how women can bind geographically scattered communities through the movement of these valuable objects, which are the products of female activity."  u  Pacific Affairs

"This is a very well written ethnographic study that is a valuable contribution to the long standing discussions within anthropology about 'the gift.' More specifically it adds a new dimension to the work on women's wealth...[it] is also a valuable addition to work on diasporic populations."  u  Helen Lee, La Trobe University

"This is an original and important study of the experience of contemporary Tongans... Through nuanced ethnography which moves between Tongatapu and Auckland in New Zealand, she shows how ordinary Tongans daily cross the borders of states and the tenacious barriers between tradition and modernity, gifts and commodities."  u  Margaret Jolly, The Australian National University, Canberra

Author Biography

Ping-Ann Addo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has published in Pacific Studies, Pacific Arts, Reviews in Anthropology, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in anthologies on Pacific transnationalism and Pacific clothing. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts.

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