Voyages

A. Small Cathy

Description

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.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• USA
• Oceanía
• Ethnic studies
• Oceania
• États-Unis
• Migration
• Tonga
• Océanie

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780801463259
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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From Tongan Villages To american suburbs

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E d i t i o n

Cathy A. Small

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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Copyright © 1997, 2011 by Cathy A. Small Second edition

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First edition first published 1997 by Cornell University Press First edition first printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1997 Second edition first published 2011 by Cornell University Press Second edition first printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2011

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Small, Cathy.  Voyages : from Tongan villages to American suburbs / Cathy A. Small. — 2nd ed.  p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 9780801450693 (cloth : alk. paper) —  ISBN 9780801477393 (pbk. : alk. paper)  1. Tongans—Social conditions. 2. Tongans—United States. 3. United States—Emigration and immigration. 4. Emigration and immigration. 5. Acculturation. I. Title.  GN671.T5S63 2011  973'.0499482—dc23 2011031365

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TO MY LOvED ONES, IN TONGà àND tHE uNItED stàtES, HERE àND BEYOND

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Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Author’s Note

I Departures

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1of a Migrating Village Portrait 2Migrate? Why

II Arrivals

3 Coming to America 4 One Family’s Story 5 Palu, the One Who Left 6Anthropologist over Time An

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7Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990s Going 8 Distant Family

9 Finau, the One Who Stayed 10 Tradition

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Travels Ahead

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The Meanings of Tongan Migration

Anthropology in a Transnational World

Revisiting Globalization

California Dreams

Back to the Islands

Reflections on and of Globalization

Appendix: Tongan Population and Migration Estimates

Notes Bibliography Index

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F a c e T o T h e o n d e d i T i o n

This new edition offers a view of migration, globalization, and ethnographic fieldwork over thirty years. It does not alter earlier versions of this book but rather adds fresh perceptions and narratives in a new final section, V: Revisiting Globalization. The new sec tion, divided into three chapters, is based on two more visits to Tonga and to California in 2010, along with experiences and interactions over the past fifteen years since the last edition was written. There is more on how this edition came about on pages 217–219, which introduce the new chapters. I dedicate this edition to my loving father, who has always been a won derful support and example for me in life. He died while I was in Tonga, and I am grateful to my Tongan family who helped me mourn.

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