Marking Indigeneity - The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations

Marking Indigeneity examines the conflicts and reconciliation of indigenous time-space within the Tongan community in Maui, as well as within the time-space of capitalism. Using indigenous theory, Tēvita O. Ka'ili provides an ethnography of the social relations of the highly mobile Tongans.

About the author

Tēvita O. Ka'ili is an associate professor of international cultural studies and cultural anthropology, and the chair of the Department of Cultures and Languages at Brigham Young University-Hawai'i.

Summary

Examines the conflicts and reconciliation of indigenous time-space within the Tongan community in Maui, as well as within the time-space of capitalism. Using indigenous theory, the author provides an ethnography of the social relations of the highly mobile Tongans.

Product details

• Authors: Tevita O Ka'ili, Tevita O. Ka'Ili
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780816538676
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3867-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology