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008			220302t20122012nyu fo d z eng d
019			_a(OCoLC)979577331
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024	7		_a10.7591/9780801464027 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780801464027
035			_a(DE-B1597)478287
035			_a(OCoLC)794306978
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aF870.S17 _bG47 2016
072		7	_aSOC002010 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a305.899462 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aGershon, Ilana _eautore
245	1	0	_aNo Family Is an Island : _bCultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora / _cIlana Gershon.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2012]
264		4	_c©2012
300			_a1 online resource (208 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aExpertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tPart I -- _t1. Exchanging While Not-Knowing -- _t2. The Moral Economies of Conversion -- _tPart II -- _tIntroduction: Some Political and Historical Context -- _t3. When Culture Is Not a System -- _t4. Legislating Families as Cultural -- _t5. Constructing Choice, Compelling Culture -- _tConclusion -- _tReferences -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aGovernment bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, 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.In both New Zealand and the United States, Samoan migrants are minor minorities in an ethnic constellation dominated by other minority groups. As a result, they often find themselves in contexts where the challenge is not to establish the terms of the debate but to rewrite them. To navigate complicated and often unyielding bureaucracies, they must become skilled in what Gershon calls "reflexive engagement" with the multiple social orders they inhabit. Those who are successful are able to parlay their own cultural expertise (their "Samoanness") into an ability to subtly alter the institutions with which they interact in their everyday lives. Just as the "cultural" is sometimes constrained by the forces exerted by acultural institutions, so too can migrant culture reshape the bureaucracies of their new countries. Theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable, No Family Is an Island contributes significantly to our understanding of the modern immigrant experience of making homes abroad.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aSamoan Americans _xSocial conditions _xCalifornia.
650		0	_aSamoan Americans _zCalifornia _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aSamoans _xSocial conditions _xNew Zealand.
650		0	_aSamoans _zNew Zealand _xSocial conditions.
650		4	_aAnthropology.
650		4	_aSociology & Social Science.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464027
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801464027
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801464027/original
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