Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life

by Miriam Kahn

Book Overview

Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences)

The "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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029599102X
• ISBN13: 9780295991023
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"