Tahiti: Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians

ISBN-13: 9781412806404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 158 str.

Ben R. Finney

Opis

The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin processes of industrialization and urbanization."

Spis treści

1. introduction 2. Tahitian Society 3. Mai'ao and 'A'ou'a 4. Economic Change 5. Social Change? 6 . Tahitians in a Modern Age

O autorze

Ben R. Finney