TY  - BOOK
AU  - Addo,Ping-Ann
TI  - Creating a nation with cloth: women, wealth, and tradition in the Tongan diaspora 
T2  - ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology
SN  - 1299777716
AV  - HQ1868 .A44 2013eb
U1  - 305.4099612 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Women
KW  - Tonga
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Textile fabrics
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Textiles et tissus
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Diaspora
KW  - gtt
KW  - Culturele identiteit
KW  - Tonganen
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-218) and index; Introduction. Nation, cloth, and diaspora : locating langa fonua -- Migration, tradition, and barkcloth : authentic innovations in textile gifts -- Gender, materiality, and value : Tongan women's cooperatives in New Zealand -- Women, roots, and routes : life histories and life paths -- Gender, kinship, and economics : transacting in prestige and complex ceremonial gifts -- Cash, death, and diaspora : when koloa won't do -- Church, cash, and competition : multi-centrism and modern religion -- Conclusion. Moving, dwelling, and transforming spaces
N2  - Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation - fonua - which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern nation-building. Utilizing the concept of the "multi-territorial nation," the author questions the notion that living in diaspora is mutually exclusive with authentic cultural production and identity. The globalized nation the women build through gifting their barkcloth and fine mats, challenges the normative idea that nations are always geographically bounded or spatially contiguous. The work suggests that, contrary to prevalent understandings of globalization, global resource flows do not always primarily involve commodities. Focusing on first-generation Tongans in New Zealand and the relationships they forge across generations and throughout the diaspora, the book examines how these communities centralize the diaspora by innovating and adapting traditional cultural forms in unprecedented ways
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