Voyages from Tongan villages to American suburbs /
This book documents an instance of one of the most momentous social phenomena of the late twentieth century: the mass migration of the world's population from agricultural ex-colonies and ex-protectorates to the industrial world. Cathy A. Small provides the poignant perspective of one extended...
| Main Author: | Small, Cathy. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1997.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Departure. 1. Portrait of a Migrating Village
- 2. Why Migrate?
- - II. Arrivals. 3. Coming to America
- 4. One Family's Story
- 5. Palu, the One Who Left
- 6. An Anthropologists over Time
- - III. Returns. 7. Going Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990s
- 8. Distant Family
- 9. Finau, the One Who Stayed
- 10. Tradition
- - IV. Travels ahead. 11. The Meanings of Tongan Migration
- 12. Anthropology in a Transnational World
- - App. Tongan Population and Migration Estimates.