9780295991023-029599102X-Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life (Culture, Place, and Nature)

ISBN-13: 9780295991023
ISBN-10: 029599102X
Edition: 28571st
Author: Miriam Kahn
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780295991023
ISBN-10: 029599102X
Edition: 28571st
Author: Miriam Kahn
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life (Culture, Place, and Nature) (ISBN-13: 9780295991023 and ISBN-10: 029599102X), written by authors Miriam Kahn, was published by University of Washington Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Australia & New Zealand (Australia & Oceania History, Oceania, Expeditions & Discoveries, World History, Cultural, Anthropology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life (Culture, Place, and Nature) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Australia & New Zealand books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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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 genealogical identity, and is a source of physical and spiritual nourishment. These imagined and lived perspectives seem incompatible, yet are intricately intertwined in the political economy.

Tahiti Beyond the Postcard engages with questions about the subtle but ubiquitous ways in which power entangles itself in place-related ways. Miriam Kahn uses interpretive frameworks of both Tahitian and European scholars, drawing upon ethnographic details that include ancient chants, picture postcards, antinuclear protests, popular song lyrics, and the legacy of Paul Gauguin's art, to provide fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place.

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