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On the edge of the global

modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation

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Stanford University Press
Language
English
Pages
297

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Civilization, Culture and globalization, Tonga, social life and customs

Places

Tonga
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On the edge of the global: modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-291) and index.

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Stanford, California
Series
East-West Center Series on Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific

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Dewey Decimal Class
996.12
Library of Congress
DU880 .B47 2011, DU880

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xxiv, 297 p. :
Number of pages
297

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OL25065019M
Internet Archive
onedgeglobalmode00besn
ISBN 13
9780804774055, 9780804774062
LCCN
2010043060
OCLC/WorldCat
671491736

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