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

(Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific)

Stanford University Press, c2011

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-291) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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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