{"product_id":"tahiti-beyond-the-postcard-miriam-kahn-9780295991016","title":"Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTahiti Beyond the Postcard\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miriam Kahn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295991011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295991016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/25\/2011 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2011","brand":"Miriam Kahn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913570615551,"sku":"9780295991016","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bb131a97-fb4f-41ef-928b-dccb55930427.jpg?v=1680621114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tahiti-beyond-the-postcard-miriam-kahn-9780295991016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}