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Touring Pacific Cultures.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (480 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781922144263
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Touring Pacific CulturesDDC classification:
  • 306.4819
LOC classification:
  • G156.5.H47.T687 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Images and Orthography -- Departures and Arrivals in Touring Pacific Cultures -- Hawai'i: Prelude to a Journey -- Darkness and Light in Black and White: Travelling Mission Imagery from the New Hebrides -- Tourism -- The Cruise Ship -- Pitcairn and the Bounty Story -- Guys like Gauguin -- Statued (stat you?) Traditions -- Detouring Kwajalein: At Home Between Coral and Concrete in the Marshall Islands -- Yuki Kihara's Culture for Sale and the History of Pacific Cultural Performance -- Native Realities in an Imaginary World: Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art at Aulani, A Disney Resort &amp -- Spa -- Moving Towers: Worlding the Spectacle of Masculinities Between South Pentecost and Munich -- Writing Home on the Pari and Touring in Pacific Studies -- Performing Indigenous Sovereignties across the Pacific -- New Pacific Portraits: Voices from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts -- Great Works -- Ibu &amp -- Tufuga -- Cross-currents: Teana and Moenau, Tahitian Tourists in Seattle -- Carnet de Voyage en Irlande -- A Trip from Port Moresby to Suva -- Performing Cannibalism in the South Seas -- Touring 'Real Life'? Authenticity and Village-based Tourism in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea -- Suva, November '97 -- Pikinini in Paradise: Photography, Souvenirs and the 'Child Native' in Tourism -- Bandit Singsing: The Tourism Unexperience -- The Friendly Islands? Tonga's Ambivalent Relationship with Tourism -- Re-purposing Paradise: Tourism, Image and Affect -- Local Tourist on a Bus Ride Home -- Mixed Bag of Tropical Sweets Sitting Outside the Hotel R &amp -- R -- Fiji: Reflections in the Infinity Pool -- Afterword: Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the 'Wicked Problem' of Pacific Tourist Studies -- Contributors.
Summary: Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, material and performed cultures of the Pacific region. It explores new directions in understanding how culture is defined, produced, experienced and sustained through tourism-related practices across that region.
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Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Images and Orthography -- Departures and Arrivals in Touring Pacific Cultures -- Hawai'i: Prelude to a Journey -- Darkness and Light in Black and White: Travelling Mission Imagery from the New Hebrides -- Tourism -- The Cruise Ship -- Pitcairn and the Bounty Story -- Guys like Gauguin -- Statued (stat you?) Traditions -- Detouring Kwajalein: At Home Between Coral and Concrete in the Marshall Islands -- Yuki Kihara's Culture for Sale and the History of Pacific Cultural Performance -- Native Realities in an Imaginary World: Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art at Aulani, A Disney Resort &amp -- Spa -- Moving Towers: Worlding the Spectacle of Masculinities Between South Pentecost and Munich -- Writing Home on the Pari and Touring in Pacific Studies -- Performing Indigenous Sovereignties across the Pacific -- New Pacific Portraits: Voices from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts -- Great Works -- Ibu &amp -- Tufuga -- Cross-currents: Teana and Moenau, Tahitian Tourists in Seattle -- Carnet de Voyage en Irlande -- A Trip from Port Moresby to Suva -- Performing Cannibalism in the South Seas -- Touring 'Real Life'? Authenticity and Village-based Tourism in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea -- Suva, November '97 -- Pikinini in Paradise: Photography, Souvenirs and the 'Child Native' in Tourism -- Bandit Singsing: The Tourism Unexperience -- The Friendly Islands? Tonga's Ambivalent Relationship with Tourism -- Re-purposing Paradise: Tourism, Image and Affect -- Local Tourist on a Bus Ride Home -- Mixed Bag of Tropical Sweets Sitting Outside the Hotel R &amp -- R -- Fiji: Reflections in the Infinity Pool -- Afterword: Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the 'Wicked Problem' of Pacific Tourist Studies -- Contributors.

Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, material and performed cultures of the Pacific region. It explores new directions in understanding how culture is defined, produced, experienced and sustained through tourism-related practices across that region.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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