On the edge of the global modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation
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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| Sprache: | eng |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | East-West Center Series on Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXIV, 297 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780804774055 978-0-8047-7405-5 9780804774062 978-0-8047-7406-2 |