Creating a Nation with Cloth

Creating a Nation with ClothTongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation fonuawhich Tongans retain as an anchor for modern nation building. Utilizing the concept of the multi territorial nation, the author questions the notion that living in diaspora is mutually exclusive with

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