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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Small, Cathy.

Small, Cathy A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tongans--Social conditions.

Tongans.

Tongans--United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Acculturation.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

I. Departures

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 Anthropologist over Time

III. Returns

7. Going Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990's

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

V. Revisiting Globalization

13. California Dreams

14. Back to the Islands

15. Reflections on and of Globalization

Appendix: Tongan Population and Migration Estimates

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801463266

0801463262

9780801463259

0801463254

OCLC:

987948948