No Family Is an Island - Cultural Expertise Among Samoans in Diaspora

Klappentext Ilana Gershon is Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is the author of The Breakup 2.0, also from Cornell. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Ilana Gershon, Ilana M. Gershon, Gershon Ilana
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2012
• EAN: 9780801478055
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7805-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education