dc.contributor.author |
Gershon, Ilana |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2021-12-10T02:53:32Z |
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dc.date.available |
2021-12-10T02:53:32Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2006 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1649 |
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dc.description |
27 pages : PDF |
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dc.description.abstract |
In independent and American Samoa, Samoan representatives have historically been successful at furthering their communities’ interests when dealing with various colonial regimes. Yet during my fieldwork in California, I kept witnessing failed encounters between Samoan migrants and government officials. I argue that government officials helped create these problems through the ways they expected Samoan migrants to act as culture-bearers. I conclude by exploring how cultural mediators become the focal point for tensions generated by the contradictory assumptions government system-carriers and Samoan culture-bearers hold about how to relate to social orders |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Volume 71;No. 4 |
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dc.subject |
Migrants, welfare, cultural mediators, political representation |
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dc.title |
When Culture Is Not A System, Why Samoan Cultural Brokers Can Not Do Their Job. |
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dc.type |
Article |
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