Product Description
Chapters: Beauty Pageants in French Polynesia, Dances of Tahiti, Flags of French Polynesia, Languages of French Polynesia, Museums in French Polynesia, National Symbols of French Polynesia, Orders, Decorations, and Medals of French Polynesia, Tahiti and Society Islands Mythology, Fati, Aremata-Popoa and Aremata-Rorua, Taonoui, Pua Tu Tahi, Maohi, Pahuanui, Ta'aroa, Ro'o-I-Te-Hiripoi, Tahitian Language, 'ote'a, Pareo, 'upa'upa, Taputapuatea Marae, Miss Tahiti, Flag of French Polynesia, Tamure, Mangareva Language, 'aparima, Flag of the Gambier Islands, Rata, Maui, Musée de Tahiti et Des Îles, Robert Wan Pearl Museum, Coat of Arms of French Polynesia, Tuamotuan Language, Hivinau, Austral Language, Commander in the Order of Tahiti Nui, Pa'o'a, Tumu-Nui, Dance in French Polynesia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tahitian (Reo Tahiti in tahitian) is an indigenous language spoken mainly in the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is an Eastern Polynesian language closely related to the other indigenous languages spoken in French Polynesia: Marquesan, Tuamotuan, Mangarevan, and Austral Islands languages. It is also related to the Rarotongan, New Zealand Mori, and Hawaiian languages. Tahitian features a very small number of phonemes, as further evidence of its linguistic heritage: five vowels and nine consonants, not counting the lengthened vowels and diphthongs. The glottal stop or eta is a genuine consonant. (People unfamiliar with Tahitian might mistake it for a punctuation mark.) This is typical of Polynesian languages (compare to the Hawaiian okina and others). However, in Tahitian the glottal stops are seldom written in practice, and if they are, often as a straight apostrophe ' , instead of the curly apostrophe. Native speakers know where to p...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=463361 ... Read more

Product Description
French Polynesia has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 973 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

Product Description
Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the largest island in French Polynesia. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

A Great Beginners Guide to Tahiti
This is a great introductory book on Tahiti.A previous reviewer gave this book two stars because it reads like a children's book.Well, that's because this series, Cultures of the World, is a children's book series.This is a very readable intoduction to the human and physical geography of Tahiti.

Reads Like A Grammar School Book
Not the best book written about Tahiti - This book is part of a series from the same publisher on destination around the world. Very vague content. Would be good for younger school children for research about theregion. Sorry :( ... Read more

Product Description
The Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific have been inhabited by Polynesian peoples since around A.D. 300 but were not visited by Europeans until 1595. Ferdon has drawn on the records of these early visitors to paint a broad picture of Marquesan social organization, religion, material culture, and daily life. ... Read more

Product Description
Marquesan society has long captured the interest of observers, in part because of unfamiliar institutions such as polyandry. Based on a critical study of a wide range of sources, this is the first book to provide a clear account of early Marquesan social relations and culture. Thomas's analysis of a dynamic and highly fluid Chiefly society and its encounters with early European visitors and traders encompasses wider debates about the nature of gender relations in Polynesian societies, small scale hierarchical structures, cultural transformation, and longer-term change. Linking specific features of early Marquesan society, its contact with foreigners, and the longer-term transformations of eastern Polynesian societies, this will be a key source for Pacific studies. ... Read more

Product Description
Distinguished historian / anthropologist Greg Dening here revisits the island beaches of Oceania in an extended essay on first encounters and the peoples they brought together. An imaginative exploration of the symbolic strip where ocean meets island, Dening's meditation reflects upon the bloody history of the Marquesas in the South Pacific: its inhabitants and its combatants, the author's own time spent there and in study of his subject. This is a book to treasure and to reflect upon.

First encounters are usually written about as the history of explorers and the anthropology of "others." It is Greg Dening's project to produce a history and anthropology of both, "on the beach," where so many of these exchanges between peoples began.Dening imaginatively reconstructs the first interactions among explorers, missionaries, and natives--mostly in the Marquesas, the primary focus of his scholarly work. He examines fictional accounts of these encounters as well as the written record, revisiting the experiences of Captain Bligh and Gauguin, Melville's seafarers as well as some famous castaways. Each featured beach crossing is prefaced with an introduction placing the encounter in its historical context.

Beach Crossings is for Greg Dening a summary work, the apex of a fifty-year career that has taken him across many beaches and oceans. The author of the seminal volume Mr. Bligh's Bad Language, Dening writes here an intensely personal, compelling reflection upon his crossings, his subjects'--and ours. ... Read more

Product Description
The Word, The Pen, and the Pistol explores the relationships between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Borrowing from the theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, the book reveals in the French colonial territory of French Polynesia the complicit relationship between imperialism and colonial texts, between the image of Tahiti as "paradise on earth" and other instruments of management, and between discourses such as the "Noble Savage" and various technologies of discipline and ordering. In particular, the book discusses the role that such men as Buffon, Rousseau, Bouganville, Loti, Gauguin, and Gobineau and institutions such as science, phrenology, scholarship, racism, travel literature, education, and tourism played in creating, supporting, authorizing, disseminating and enforcing certain images of the Polynesian. The book simultaneously details the complex and diverse responses of Maohi people to these romanticized Western discourses and reconstructs the spaces used by them to inscribe their resistance. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (35)

Mechanic Candy
If you love Tiki, Mid Century commentaries or Pop Culture, Buy This!
For Tiki Lovers: its your Bible, for Mid Century connesuers: its a guidebook, for Pop Culture lovers: this is one of the biggest and longest lasting trends that has grown worldwide and you owe it to yourself to seek it out in debth.

This book has great pictures, wonderful, accurate information, and puts you right in the middle of the era as it was, not totally romanticized.

If you have young children, you may want to censor a few pictures, as they show some nudity.

When you buy this out of print, wonderfully Tiki text, also buy a Matin Denny Album Best of or Ultra LoungeBachelor Pad Royale: Ultra Lounge 4 or Don HoGreatest Hits, then go find a cofy spot under some swaying palm trees or in a corner of your favorite lounge and read away.

TheParrotTalksinChocolate.com SAYS YES!
this book is one of the best ever on TIKI.In fact it inspired the author of the new book, The Parrot Talks in Chocolate - the Life and Times of a Hawaiian Tiki Bar.

AWESOME

THE Classic On The Subject! 'Nuff Said.
Well... not QUITE 'nuff!

On assignment from Tiki Magazine, I had the pleasure, last year, of interviewing Sven at his spectacular mountaintop retreat in Silverlake which is a veritable Polynesian Pop wonderland! But, much like that term which he so helpfully coined, this indispensable tome is also a Poly Pop wonderland, as well as the first and (save for his newest book 'Tiki Modern') last word on the subject!

Somehow, through a combination of an archaeologist's instinct, a historian's dedication to detail, and a reporter's zeal, Sven managed to catch tropical lightning in a bottle. Or, rather, between the covers of a book! And, in the process, he single-handedly re-ignited the tiki-torch of Polynesian Pop culture in the U.S. and around the globe -- a torch which continues to burn ever-brighter thanks to Sven's seminal work.

Now out-of-print but still possible to find, anyone with even a vague interest in this topic owes it to themselves to snap up this rare tropical gem for their library. Who knows, it may even inspire them to create their own home tiki bar or lounge, as so many have now done (including yours truly)!

There's not much more I can add that has not already been more eloquently written about 'The Book Of Tiki', but I can at least reiterate that a lot of current tiki-themed bars and restaurants owe their existence to it -- heck, some tiki establishments are even WALL-PAPERED with PAGES from it!

So just thank the Tiki Gods -- and Mr. Kirsten -- for having given us devoted tikiphiles his 'Book Of Tiki' and the inspiration that continues to pour forth from it like lava from Kilauea!

A key piece of tne new Tiki Culture
This book is important. It's one of the things that can be noted as part of the neo-tiki culture revival. It got the word out there. If you want to know what the pop tiki culture is all about this book is the best source.

Lives up to the title
This book is such a great collection of tiki decor and knick-knacks that you don't even need to read the captions to enjoy it.My wife and I want to turn one of our rooms into a tiki bar.We thought we would need to do a lot of looking to get a good idea of what real post-war tiki bars were like.Well, look no further.This book has it all.If you type in "tiki" in an Internet search engine, it wouldn't come up with this many ideas.This book reviews everything from the blue prints to the big tiki restaurants down to the coasters underneath the amazing assortment of tiki mugs. The title could not have been more appropriate.This is the definitive book of tiki.Have great fun looking through the book.Depending on your age, it might make you nostalgic for those lost days. ... Read more