1st Edition

Tahiti Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians

By Ben R. Finney Copyright 2007
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

147 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. introduction 2. Tahitian Society 3. Mai'ao and 'A'ou'a 4. Economic Change 5. Social Change? 6 . Tahitians in a Modern Age

Biography

Ben R. Finney