Tahiti: Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians

by Ben Finney and Finney Br

Book Overview

The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412806402
• ISBN13: 9781412806404
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.8"