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Identity and development : Tongan culture, agriculture, and the perenniality of the gift
- Title
- Identity and development : Tongan culture, agriculture, and the perenniality of the gift / Paul van der Grijp.
- Author
- Grijp, Paul van der, 1952-
- Publication
- Leiden : KITLV Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- x, 225 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Identity and development presents a record of Tonga's increasing participation in the modern global economy, and provides anthropologists, economists, and historians with a detailed case study that bears heavily on major issues of the day, both practically and theoretically. The book focuses on issues of identity, entrepreneurship, and the intricacies of development and addresses the question, 'How (in the current state of the economy) can a Tongan become a successful grower?' This question is set against the background of a boom in cash cropping, sparked by a burgeoning export trade with Japan."--Jacket
- Series Statement
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 213
- Uniform Title
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 213.
- Subject
- Agriculture > Tonga
- Agriculture
- Economic history
- Manners and customs
- Social conditions
- Wirtschaftssoziologie
- Kultursoziologie
- Kultur
- Landwirtschaft
- Landbouw
- Ondernemerschap
- Culturele identiteit
- Economic development > Tonga
- Tonga > Economic conditions
- Tonga > Social conditions
- Tonga > Social life and customs
- Tonga
- Tonga > Civilization
- Note
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-218) and index.
- כולל ביבליוגרפיה.
- Contents
- Foreword / Alan Howard -- I. Configurations of identity -- II. Development and anthropology -- III. Development in a rural village -- IV. Living tradition Tongan style -- V. Migration, remittances and aid -- VI. Garden of the Pacific -- VII. Vanilla growers and politics -- VIII. Chronicle of the squash pumpkin boom -- IX. Common features of squash exporters -- X. Currents in Tongan entrepreneurship -- XI. Squash cultivation technology -- XII. On becoming a successful squash grower -- XIII. Implications of cash cropping -- XIV. Selling land and labour for gifts -- XV. Convention and invention of identity -- XVI. Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 906718215X
- 9789067182157
- LCCN
- 2005424623
- 9789067182157
- OCLC
- ocm55993033
- 55993033
- SCSB-1422918
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library