Consumption and Cosmopolitanism: Practicing Modernity at the Second-Hand Marketplace in Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-45

  Besnier, Niko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Cosmopolitanism; Flea markets; Modernity; Remittances; Second hand trade; Tonga

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642407869     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2004.0002     Document Type: Review

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