Ping-Ann Addo

Gebundenes Buch

Creating a Nation with Cloth

Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

Beschreibung

A well-written ethnographic study Adds a new dimension to the work on women's wealth A valuable addition to the work on diasporic populations Explores the barriers between tradition and modernity, gifts and commodities

Autor

Ping-Ann Addo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has published in Pacific Studies, Pacific Arts, Reviews in Anthropology, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in anthologies on Pacific transnationalism and Pacific clothing. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780857458957
• ISBN-10: 0857458957
• Artikelnr.: 38488130