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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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 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 V. Revisiting Globalization
13. California Dreams
14. Back to the Islands
15. Reflections on and of Globalization Appendix: Tongan Population and Migration EstimatesNotes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Cathy A. Small is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of My Freshman Year (as Rebekah Nathan), also from Cornell.
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