On the edge of the global : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation /

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Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development&qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Besnier, Niko, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Temas:
Culture and globalization > Tonga.
History.
History
Culture et mondialisation > Tonga.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
HISTORY > Oceania.
Civilization
Culture and globalization
Manners and customs
Globalisierung
Modernität
Soziokultureller Wandel
Tonga > Social life and customs.
Tonga > Civilization.
Tonga > Mœurs et coutumes.
Tonga > Civilisation.
Tonga
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Straddling the edge of the global
  • Tonga's modernity
  • Consumption and cosmopolitanism
  • When gifts become commodities
  • Modern bodies on the runway
  • Coloring and straightening
  • Shaping the modern body
  • Reconfiguring the modern Christian
  • Conclusion : sites of modernity.

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