Voyages : from Tongan villages to American suburbs / Cathy A. Small.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Portrait of a migrating village -- Why migrate? -- Coming to America -- One family's story -- Palu, the one who left -- An anthropologist over time -- Going home : Tongan village life in the 1990s -- Distant family -- Finau, the one who stayed -- Tradition -- The meanings of Tongan migration -- Anthropology in a transnational world -- California dreams -- Back to the islands -- Reflections on and of globalization -- Appendix : Tongan population and migration estimates.

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In Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over three decades. The second edition adds fresh descriptions and narratives in three new chapters based on two more visits to Tonga and California in 2010. The author (whose role after thirty years of fieldwork is both ethnographer and family member) reintroduces the reader to four sisters in the same family-two who migrated to the United States and two who remained in Tonga-and reveals what has unfolded in their lives in the fifteen years since the first edition was written. The second edition concludes with new reflections on how immigration and globalization have affected family, economy, tradition, political life, identity, and the practice of anthropology. Show More Show Less.

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