{"product_id":"tahiti-beyond-the-postcard-power-place-and-everyday-life-culture-place-and-nature-9780295991023","title":"Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power  Place  and Everyday Life (Culture  Place  and Nature)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner 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 Tahitis 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 Frances 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 Gauguins art  to provide fresh perspectives on colonialism  tourism  imagery  and the anthropology of place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647641509941,"sku":"ByrdShop_029599102X","price":29.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780295991023.jpg?v=1781696884","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tahiti-beyond-the-postcard-power-place-and-everyday-life-culture-place-and-nature-9780295991023","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}