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Viewing Diasporas from the Pacific: What Pacific Ethnographies Offer Pacific Diaspora Studies

Viewing Diasporas from the Pacific: What Pacific Ethnographies Offer Pacific Diaspora Studies This article explores what long-standing analytical traditions in Pacific ethnographies can offer Pacific diaspora studies. In particular, I advocate researchers' reconceptualizing their unit of analysis when interrogating the relationships between families and diasporas, and argue that family networks fashion diasporas' longevity and tangibility. Emphasizing families' social organization encourages Pacific diaspora studies to focus on how and when cultural differences have effects. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Viewing Diasporas from the Pacific: What Pacific Ethnographies Offer Pacific Diaspora Studies

Gershon, Ilana.
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 19 (2) – Aug 13, 2007
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This article explores what long-standing analytical traditions in Pacific ethnographies can offer Pacific diaspora studies. In particular, I advocate researchers' reconceptualizing their unit of analysis when interrogating the relationships between families and diasporas, and argue that family networks fashion diasporas' longevity and tangibility. Emphasizing families' social organization encourages Pacific diaspora studies to focus on how and when cultural differences have effects.

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The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Aug 13, 2007

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