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Author Besnier, Niko, author.

Title On the edge of the global : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation / Niko Besnier.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series East-West Center Series on Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"--And the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them-have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means.
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Subject Culture and globalization -- Tonga.
Culture and globalization.
Tonga.
Tonga -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Tonga -- Civilization.
Civilization.
History.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Besnier, Niko, 1958- author. On the edge of the global. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2011 9780804774055 (DLC) 2010043060 (OCoLC)671491736
ISBN 9780804777643 (electronic book)
0804777640 (electronic book)
9780804774055
0804774056
9780804774062
0804774064