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Tahiti beyond the postcard : power, place, and everyday life /

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 to serve as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry. This postcard image, however, masks a different, less known...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kahn, Miriam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2011]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. One New Geographies in the Wake of Colonialism
  • ch. Two Placentas in the Land, Bombs in the Bedrock
  • ch. Three Keeping the Myth Alive
  • ch. Four In the Cocoon
  • ch. Five From Our Place to Their Place
  • ch. Six Everyday Spaces of Resistance
  • ch. Seven E Aha Atu Ra? What Will Happen?.