Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora - Makiko Nishitani - Books - University of Hawai'i Press - 9780824889746 - July 30, 2021
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Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora

Makiko Nishitani

Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships.


204 pages, 1 black & white illustration

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 30, 2021
ISBN13 9780824889746
Publishers University of Hawai'i Press
Pages 204
Dimensions 227 × 153 × 18 mm   ·   322 g