Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers : Craft, Creativity, and Cultural Heritage in Hawaii, California, and Australia /

Over the last forty years, surfing has emerged from its Pacific islands origins to become a global industry. Since its beginnings more than a thousand years ago, surfing's icon has been the surfboard--its essential instrument, the point of physical connection between human and nature, body and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Warren, Andrew, 1984- (Autor), Gibson, Chris, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Surfboards > Design and construction.
Surfboard industry.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Water Sports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Surfboard industry > Australia.
Surfboard industry > California.
Surfboard industry > Hawaii.
Hawaii.
California.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Surfing places, surfboard makers: a historical geography
  • A Pacific story: surfboard making in the wood era
  • Foam futures: evolution of the modern surfboard industry
  • Made by hand: a custom system of production
  • Crafting surfboards: gender, bodies, and emotions
  • Global stoke: the commercialization of surfing
  • Computer shaping: mechanized surfboard production
  • Surfboard making: new (and uncertain) horizons.

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