Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love

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.

Bazat pe munca de teren etnografica pe termen lung in randul mamelor si fiicelor adulte migranti din Tongan in Australia, antropologul Makiko Nishitani ofera o relatare unica a modului in care cadourile, banii si informatiile circula de-a lungul legaturilor dintre rude si rude.