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Besnier Niko
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Titolo: |
On the edge of the global [[electronic resource] ] : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation / / Niko Besnier
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Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina: | 996.12 |
Soggetto topico: | Culture and globalization - Tonga |
Soggetto geografico: | Tonga Social life and customs |
Tonga Civilization | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Figures, Tables, Charts, and Maps; Note on Tongan Orthography and Transcription Conventions; Preface; 1. Straddling the Edge of the Global; 2. Tonga's Modernity; 3. Consumption and Cosmopolitanism; 4. When Gifts Become Commodities; 5. Modern Bodies on the Runway; 6. Coloring and Straightening; 7. Shaping the Modern Body; 8. Reconfiguring the Modern Christian; Conclusion: Sites of Modernity; Notes; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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""-and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them-have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity me |
Titolo autorizzato: | On the edge of the global ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8047-7764-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456639303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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