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Tahiti Beyond the Postcard
Miriam Kahn
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Description for Tahiti Beyond the Postcard
hardcover. Provides fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place Series: Culture, Place, and Nature. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HBJM; JHM; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences)
The “Tahiti” that most people imagine - white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful women - is a product of 18th century European romanticism and persists today as the bedrock of Tahiti’s tourism industry. This postcard image, however, masks a different reality. The dreams and desires that the tourism industry promotes distract from the medical nightmares and environmental destruction caused by France’s 30-year nuclear testing program in French Polynesia. Tahitians see the burying of a bomb in their land as deeply offensive. For Tahitians, the land abounds with ancestral fertility, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Culture, Place, and Nature
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295991016
SKU
V9780295991016
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About Miriam Kahn
Miriam Kahn is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society and coauthor of Pacific Voices: Keeping Our Cultures Alive.
Reviews for Tahiti Beyond the Postcard
"Tahitian salvation from the pretty picture could get ugly . . . but at least Kahn's book already alerts the international media to scrutinize Tahiti and French Polynesia under critical commentary, and not just the travel pages."
Frances Mae Carolina Ramos
Journal of Contemporary Asia
"A welcome addition to any ethnography course focusing on the Pacific, as ... Read more
Frances Mae Carolina Ramos
Journal of Contemporary Asia
"A welcome addition to any ethnography course focusing on the Pacific, as ... Read more