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On the edge of the global : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation
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On the edge of the global : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation / Niko Besnier.
ISBN
9780804774055 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0804774056 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780804774062 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0804774064 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description
xxiv, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2011
Series
East-West Center Series on Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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