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Author(s) -
Small Cathy A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.60
Subject(s) - ethnography , the arts , anthropology , media studies , sociology , graduate students , history , library science , art history , visual arts , art , pedagogy , computer science
Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tapa from Tonga and the Pacific Islands by Ping‐Ann Addo. Oakland, CA: California College of the Arts, 2004. 50 pp. (Co‐published with the California Academy of Sciences.). Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tapa Making and Community Collaboration (DVD) by Sonia BasSheva. Cathy A. Small is Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Coordinator at Northern Arizona University. She conducted fieldwork in the Kingdom of Tonga from 1981 to 1984, in 1987, and in 1995, since focusing on Tongan‐Americans who now live in Northern California. Her recent work explores ethnographic and computer simulation approaches to cultural change, including an ethnography of U. S. "college culture," My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (Cornell University Press, 2005).