On the edge of the global : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation /
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...
| Основен автор: | Besnier, Niko, 1958- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
℗♭2011.
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| Серия: |
Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=380193 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
On the edge of the global. |
Съдържание:
- 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.