Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society (Women and Change in the Developing World)

by Victoria S. Lockwood

Book Overview

As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation brought about by missionaries, merchants, and French colonisers - a transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155587391X
• ISBN13: 9781555873912
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
• Length: 170 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"