Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories "cultural" and "acultural" become relevant for Samoans as they encounter cultural differences in churches, ritual exchanges, welfare offices, and community-based organizations.
In both New Zealand and the United States, Samoan migrants are minor minorities in an ethnic constellation dominated by other minority groups. As a result, they often find themselves in contexts where the challenge is not to establish the terms of the debate but to rewrite them. To navigate complicated and often unyielding bureaucracies, they must become skilled in what Gershon calls "reflexive engagement" with the multiple social orders they inhabit. Those who are successful are able to parlay their own cultural expertise (their "Samoanness") into an ability to subtly alter the institutions with which they interact in their everyday lives. Just as the "cultural" is sometimes constrained by the forces exerted by acultural institutions, so too can migrant culture reshape the bureaucracies of their new countries. Theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable, No Family Is an Island contributes significantly to our understanding of the modern immigrant experience of making homes abroad.
Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories "cultural" and "acultural" become relevant for Samoans as they encounter cultural differences in churches, ritual exchanges, welfare offices, and community-based organizations.
In both New Zealand and the United States, Samoan migrants are minor minorities in an ethnic constellation dominated by other minority groups. As a result, they often find themselves in contexts where the challenge is not to establish the terms of the debate but to rewrite them. To navigate complicated and often unyielding bureaucracies, they must become skilled in what Gershon calls "reflexive engagement" with the multiple social orders they inhabit. Those who are successful are able to parlay their own cultural expertise (their "Samoanness") into an ability to subtly alter the institutions with which they interact in their everyday lives. Just as the "cultural" is sometimes constrained by the forces exerted by acultural institutions, so too can migrant culture reshape the bureaucracies of their new countries. Theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable, No Family Is an Island contributes significantly to our understanding of the modern immigrant experience of making homes abroad.
Автор: Kava Vaoese Название: My First 100 Samoan Words Book 1 ISBN: 064500300X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780645003000 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3966.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Book 1 of the series, "My First 100 Words in Samoan" portrays the everyday life of Amoleka and his Samoan family/cousins. Your child's first words are presented in simple terms to help teach them their initial Samoan words. Depicted in bright and inviting colours of the Pacific, parents can easily teach their children basic everyday words that kids try to say first. The words are used in basic phrases with English translations. Your child will not only learn to speak basic Samoan but practice fun and healthy family lifestyle habits. Follow her on Instagram & Facebook #VaoeseLimutauKava.
Автор: Kava Vaoese Название: My First 100 Samoan Words Book 2 ISBN: 0645003026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780645003024 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4311.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Book 2 of the series, "My First 100 Words in Samoan" continues to portray the everyday life of Amoleka and his Samoan family/cousins. Your child's first words are presented in simple terms to help teach them their initial Samoan words. Depicted in bright and inviting colours of the Pacific, this should excite your little ones to easily learn Samoan. The words are used in basic phrases with English translations, aiming to assist in helping your child's transition in using simple sentences in Samoan. Kids will not only learn to speak Samoan, but practice fun and healthy family lifestyle habits. Follow her on Instagram & Facebook #VaoeseLimutauKava.
Автор: Kava Vaoese Название: My First 100 Samoan Words Book 2 ISBN: 0645003050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780645003055 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Book 2 of the "My First 100 Samoan Words" 4-book series, continues about Amoleka and his Samoan family/cousins, and their daily routines. Your child's first words are presented in simple terms to help teach them their initial Samoan words. Depicted in bright and inviting colours of the Pacific, this should excite your little ones to easily learn Samoan. The words are used in basic phrases with English translations, aiming to assist in helping your child's transition in using simple sentences in Samoan. Kids will not only learn to speak Samoan, but practice fun and healthy family lifestyle habits. Follow her on Instagram & Facebook #VaoeseLimutauKava.
Описание: Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Samoan ?
Learning Samoan can be fun with this picture book.
In this book you will find the following features:
Samoan Alphabets.
Samoan Words.
English Translations.
Автор: Schmidt, Johanna Название: Migrating Genders ISBN: 036788254X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367882549 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on rich empirical material, this book tells of both the diversity and the uniqueness of fa`afafine identities, aspects which fa`afafine have maintained in the face of Westernization, migration, and cultural marginalization in both Samoa and New Zealand. As such, in addition to anthropologists, it will be of interest to geographers, sociolog
Описание: Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this groundbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of ""contextual theologians,"" exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands` culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues.
Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Автор: Fay Calkins Название: My Samoan Chief ISBN: 0824858972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824858971 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Ala'ilima, a descendant of Samoan chiefs, while working on her doctoral dissertation in the Library of Congress. After an unconventional courtship and a typical American wedding, they set out for Western Samoa, where Fay was to find a way of life totally new and charming, if at times frustrating and confusing.Soon after her arrival in the islands, the bride of a few months found herself with a family of seven boys in a wide range of ages, sent by relatives to live with the new couple. She was stymied by the economics of trying to support numerous guests, relatives, and a growing family, and still contribute to the lavish feasts that were given on any pretext--feasts, where the guests brought baskets in which to take home as much of the largesse as they could carry.Fay tried to introduce American institutions: a credit union, a co-op, a work schedule, and hourly wages on the banana plantation begun by her and her husband. In each instance, she quickly learned that Samoans were unwilling or unable to grasp her Western ideas of input equaling output, of personal property, or of payment received for work done. Despite these frustrations and disappointments, however, life among the people of her Samoan chief was for Fay happy and productive.
Автор: Nofoaiga Vaitusi Название: A Samoan Reading of Discipleship in Matthew ISBN: 0884142639 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780884142638 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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