Presentation Year

2017

Depreciated Participant

Meleana AkoloAnthropologyGraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

This research involves studying the Tongan culture in the San Francisco Bay Area with a feminist perspective focused on Tongan women and Tongan cultural materials known as koloa. Koloa is a major component of keeping with Tongan traditions and customs. Koloa is used for all cultural, religious, and social events. Those with proprietary entitlement are women. Women create, collect, and sell koloa. Studying women and their dominant role as cultural providers will shed light on their valuable assets and talents within the community. The Tonga Islands are located in the deep South Pacific. The study was conducted from interviews with the women, observations, and a focus group.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

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195

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