Introduction
In Consumption and Cosmopolitanism: Practicing Modernity at the Second-Hand Marketplace in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, and Niko Besnier argues that it is possible for anyone to assert or articulate a modern self or enact modernity, not just wealthy elites or high ranking individuals in the society. The fea markets attract types of customers across all genders. Women particularly love these markets since they can modern clothes for example that place them at par with their counterparts from more developed nations. In the market traditional gender restrictions are put away. Everybody irrespective of their gender is free to acquire anything that ...
