No family is an island
Subtitle: cultural expertise among Samoans in diaspora
By: Ilana Gershon
Series: Expertise; Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780801450785; 9780801478055
Subjects: Social conditions; Emigration and immigration; Samoans; Samoan Americans; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exchanging while not-knowing; title: The moral economies of conversion; title: When culture is not a system; title: Legislating families as cultural; title: Constructing choice, compelling culture.