Download or read book Beyond Tahiti written by Bud Higgins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Thomas Cole, a disillusioned product of the Gen-X tribe, seemingly has it all, but he still lacks true happiness. He doesnt know it yet, but Nathan is about to have his greatest wish finally fulfilled. Nathan awakens one morning to discover he has become the master of his own universe. He soon realizes he is completely alone on a deserted tropical island, unsure of how he arrived, how long he has been there or if he is even really there at all. Quickly, his nightmarish transcendence into mental and physical survival begins, every minute bringing a new and unusual experience. He encounters moments of tranquility and happiness as well as moments of uncertainty and terror. Unexplained events and scattered scenes from Nathans life begin to play out in random sequence, as characters from his past bring him face-to-face with the shocking truth he has been desperately chasing. As the island begins to come alive, Nathan must decide if his subconscious mind has come out to play, or if the mysterious island is truly providing him with an exclusive key back to his own lost past, unlocking the present, and propelling him perilously forward into a dark and questionable future.
Download or read book Tahiti Beyond the Postcard written by Miriam Kahn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 caused by France’s 30-year nuclear testing program in French Polynesia. Tahitians see the burying of a bomb in their land as deeply offensive. For Tahitians, the land abounds with ancestral fertility, and genealogical identity, and is a source of physical and spiritual nourishment. These imagined and lived perspectives seem incompatible, yet are intricately intertwined in the political economy. Tahiti Beyond the Postcard engages with questions about the subtle but ubiquitous ways in which power entangles itself in place-related ways. Miriam Kahn uses interpretive frameworks of both Tahitian and European scholars, drawing upon ethnographic details that include ancient chants, picture postcards, antinuclear protests, popular song lyrics, and the legacy of Paul Gauguin’s art, to provide fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place.
Download or read book Tahiti Beyond the Postcard written by Miriam Kahn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahiti evokes visions of white beaches and beautiful women. This imagined paradise, created by Euro-American romanticism, endures today as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry, while quite a different place is inhabited and experienced by ta'ata ma'ohi, as Tahitians refer to themselves. This book brings into dialogue the perspectives on place of both Tahitians and Europeans. Miriam Kahn is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Always Hungry, Never Greedy.
Download or read book Tahiti Voyage Through Paradise written by George Teeple Eggleston and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameras in hand and Tahiti in their hearts, the Egglestons started off on a French boat from Panama. Once in Papeete they revelled in its scenery, its charming people and its surrounding waters, and there is that quality to the author's description that seems to get at the heart of the place—historically and socially—as well as to the roots of its breathtaking loveliness. (Tahiti and) Moorea, Raiatea and Tahaa, of Bora Bora and finally, 500 miles further out, of gem-like Rarotonga.-Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Beyond Tahiti written by Frank Fishman and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Download or read book Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gauguin and Polynesia written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual behaviour, and his paintings, have been considered exploitative. Gauguin and Polynesia offers a fresh view on the artist, not from the perspective of European art history, but from the contemporary vantage point of the region – Oceania – which he so famously moved to. Gauguin's art is revealed, for the first time, to be richer and more eclectic than has been recognised. The artist indeed did invent enigmatic and symbolic images, but he also depicted Polynesia's colonial modernity, acknowledging the life of the time and the dignity and power of some of the Islanders he encountered. Gauguin and Polynesia neither celebrates nor condemns an extraordinary painter, who at times denounced and at other times affirmed the French empire that shaped his own life and the places he moved between. It is a revelation, of a formative artist of modern life, and of multicultural worlds in the making.
Download or read book High Corridors written by John Gunn and published by john gunn. This book was released on 1988 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond written by Margaret Isabella Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean written by Anne Perez Hattori and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean focuses on the latest era of Pacific history, examining the period from 1800 to the present day. This volume discusses advances and emerging trends in the historiography of the colonial era, before outlining the main themes of the twentieth century when the idea of a Pacific-centred century emerged. It concludes by exploring how history and the past inform preparations for the emerging challenges of the future. These essays emphasise the importance of understanding how the postcolonial period shaped the modern Pacific and its historians.
Download or read book Moon Handbooks Tahiti written by David Stanley and published by David Stanley. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the volcanic peaks of the Marquesas or shop in Papeete's vibrant marketplace. All the essentials to discovering this tropical paradise are presented in an easy-to-use format. Photos & illustrations. Maps.
Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France and the South Pacific since 1940 written by Robert Aldrich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.
Download or read book Gauguin Polynesia written by Paul Gauguin and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evolution of this fascinating encounter between European and Polynesian culture also focuses on the larger development of art in the Pacific in the era following its first European contact. Twelve insightful and original essays about Paul Gauguin and Polynesia, written by eminent scholars in the field of art history and ethnology, present the development of Polynesian art before and after Gauguin's stay in Polynesia at the end of the 19th century. The book presents over 60 works by Paul Gauguin, fully revealing the extent of the influence of Polynesian art and culture on his work, while also highlighting more than 60 works from the Pacific that exemplify the dynamic exchanges of Pacific Island peoples with Europeans throughout the 19th century."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Oceanic Encounters written by Margaret Jolly and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of `encounter¿ rather than the more common idea of `first contact¿ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of `strangers¿ or `others¿ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.
Download or read book Adventures in Paradise written by Willard Price and published by New York, Day. This book was released on 1955 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
