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Creating a Nation with Cloth

- Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780857458957
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 252
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. juni 2013
  • Størrelse:
  • 236x152x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 478 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 2. december 2024

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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.

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