The South Seas Dream
Author | : John Dyson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : 9780434219612 |
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Author | : John Dyson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : 9780434219612 |
Author | : Allison J. Truitt |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2013-08-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295804629 |
The expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam has been propelled by the rise of new markets, digital telecommunications, and an ideological emphasis on money's autonomy from the state. People in Vietnam use the metaphor of "open doors" to describe their everyday experiences of market liberalization and to designate the end of Vietnam's postwar social isolation and return to a consumer- oriented environment. Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City examines how money is redefining social identities, moral economies, and economic citizenship in Vietnam. It shows how people use money as a standard of value to measure social and moral worth, how money is used to create new hierarchies of privilege and to limit freedom, and how both domestic and global monetary politics affect the cultural politics of identity in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with shopkeepers, bankers, vendors, and foreign investors, Allison Truitt explores the function of money in everyday life. From counterfeit currencies to streetside lotteries, from gold shops to crowded temples, she relates money's restructuring to performances of identity. By locating money in domains often relegated to the margins of the economy-households, religion, and gender- she demonstrates how money is shaping ordinary people's sense of belonging and citizenship in Vietnam.
Author | : John F. McGrady |
Publisher | : COCONUT INFO |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1999-11 |
Genre | : Ocean travel |
ISBN | : 9781929317998 |
"Years ago Dr. John F. McGrady and his soul mate Davey chose to sell their businesses and possessions in Washington state, and change their lives forever. Together they pursued a common belief in free will and high-spirited adventure aboard their 34-fool sailboat, Querencia. The journey, which winds its way from North America to the South Pacific and Hawaii, was chronicled and published on the Web . . . " - p. [4] of cover.
Author | : John Henry Macartney Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gavan Daws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Polynesia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sean Brawley |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739193368 |
The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors’ and producers’ ideas about the South Seas were “haunted” by others who had written on the subject, and how they in turn influenced future generations of knowledge producers. The South Seas is unique in its examination of an array of cultural texts. Along with the foundational literary texts that established and perpetuated the South Seas tradition in written form, the authorsexplore diverse cultural forms such as art, music, theater, film, fairs, platform speakers, surfing culture, and tourism.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Polynesia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gavan Daws |
Publisher | : Jacaranda |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Europeans |
ISBN | : |
Highlights five nineteenth-century travelers who explored the South Seas and made discoveries about themselves.
Author | : Mel Kernahan |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781859849781 |
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Author | : Leigh Hadley Irvine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Oceania |
ISBN | : |