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Author Small, Cathy.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2011]
©2011

Item Status

Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Tongans -- Social conditions.
Tongans.
Social conditions.
Tongans -- United States.
United States.
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration.
Acculturation.
Acculturation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Small, Cathy. Voyages. Second edition 9780801450693 (DLC) 2011031365 (OCoLC)746489176
ISBN 9780801463259 (electronic book)
0801463254 (electronic book)
9780801450693
0801450691
9780801477393
0801477395