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On the edge of the global [electronic resource] : modern anxieties in a Pacific island nation / Niko Besnier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary issues in Asia and the PacificPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 297 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804777643 (electronic bk.)
  • 0804777640 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the edge of the global.DDC classification:
  • 996.12 22
LOC classification:
  • DU880 .B47 2011eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

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