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A Great Beginners Guide to Tahiti
This is a great introductory book on Tahiti.A previous reviewer gave this book two stars because it reads like a children's book.Well, that's because this series, Cultures of the World, is a children's book series.This is a very readable intoduction to the human and physical geography of Tahiti.

Reads Like A Grammar School Book
Not the best book written about Tahiti - This book is part of a series from the same publisher on destination around the world. Very vague content. Would be good for younger school children for research about theregion. Sorry :( ... Read more

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The Word, The Pen, and the Pistol explores the relationships between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Borrowing from the theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, the book reveals in the French colonial territory of French Polynesia the complicit relationship between imperialism and colonial texts, between the image of Tahiti as "paradise on earth" and other instruments of management, and between discourses such as the "Noble Savage" and various technologies of discipline and ordering. In particular, the book discusses the role that such men as Buffon, Rousseau, Bouganville, Loti, Gauguin, and Gobineau and institutions such as science, phrenology, scholarship, racism, travel literature, education, and tourism played in creating, supporting, authorizing, disseminating and enforcing certain images of the Polynesian. The book simultaneously details the complex and diverse responses of Maohi people to these romanticized Western discourses and reconstructs the spaces used by them to inscribe their resistance. ... Read more

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A lush tropical setting, exotic models, and legendary drinking bouts serve as the backdrop to the "larger than life" story of artist Edgar Leeteg.Often referred to as the "American Gaugin" for his idyllic rendering of the Tahitian people in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, Leeteg is best known for his discovery and mastery of the age old technique of painting on velvet.Long lost in the shadows of art history, the paintings of Edgar Leeteg are now recognized as the archetype for modern velvet paintings - one of the morepopularand enduring art mediums in the world. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 648 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Recent publications.(The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism on Fin-de-Siecle Italy: Art, Beauty, and Culture, vol. Giuliana Pieri)(Sacramental Realism: Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic Literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1924-46), vol. 68)(Beyond Ecriture feminine': Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Yeanne Hyvrard, vol. 69)(La Disme de Penitanche' by Jehan de Yourni, vol. 7)('Francois II, roi de France' by Charles-Jean-FranCois Henault, vol. 8)(La Peyrouse dons l Isle de Tahiti, on le Danger des Presomptions: drame politique, vol. 10)(Book review)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 102Issue: 1Page: NA

Article Type: Book review

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VERY SCARCE TALL BOOK PUBLISHED IN TAHITI. HIGH-QUALITY EDITION, TEXT IN FRENCH. ... Read more

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In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. More than 150 years later, tattooing is once again thriving in French Polynesia. This engrossing book documents the meaning of tattooing in contemporary French Polynesian society. In this case, its resurgence is part of a vibrant cultural revival movement. Kuwahara examines the complex significance of the art, including its relationship to gender, youth culture, ethnicity and prison life. She also provides unique photographic evidence of the sophisticated techniques and varied forms that characterize French Polynesian tattooing today. ... Read more