A non-Tongan, Addo (anthropology, U. of Massachusetts, Boston) nevertheless gained the trust of Tongan women living in New Zealand to explore in depth their production and marketing of Tongan textiles in their adopted country. Her study is an ethnography encompassing migration, tradition, gender, and economics in connection with the creation and trading of cloth--long-valued cultural materials with far-reaching meanings for the Tongan people. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)