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Hardcover Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora Book
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ISBN: 0857458957

ISBN13: 9780857458957

Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

(Book #4 in the ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology Series)

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Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation- fonua-which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern nation-building. Utilizing the concept of the "multi-territorial nation," the author questions the notion that living in diaspora is mutually exclusive...

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