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

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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

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Chapters: Language of Tahiti, Tahitian Music, Arioi, Tahitian Language, Music of Tahiti, Paul Gauguin Museum, Robert Wan Pearl Museum, Himene. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. 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: The Arioi were a secret religious order of the Society Islands, particularly the island of Tahiti, with a hierarchical structure, esoteric salvation doctrine and cultish and cultural functions. They included both men and women of all social strata, though men predominated. The Arioi's principally venerated the war god 'Oro, whom they considered the founder of their order. In order to understand the Arioi and comparable societies on other islands of the Polynesian Triangle, it is necessary to understand Polynesian societal order in classical times, i.e. before Europeans discovered the islands. In most of Polynesia, society was strictly hierarchically structured and divided into several social strata. This division did not always manifest itself the same way, but it can be found in Tahiti, as well as in Samoa, Hawaii, the Marquesas Islands, the Austral Islands, the Cook Islands, all the way over on Easter Island, and even the remotest corner of the Polynesian Triangle. There were in essence three castes on the Society Islands: The system of power on the Society Islands included characteristics of both medieval European feudalism as well as the Hindu Caste System. The structure of the order of the Arioi was a mirror image of the Tahiti's hierarchical society. There were several ranks; Moerenhout describes eight ranks which could be reached through initiation. Admission into the orders was relatively simple at first; thus, admission was associated with increasingly difficult requirements. Theoretically, all levels of all social groups were open to everyone, but in practice t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21894670 ... Read more

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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

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A lush tropical setting, exotic models, and legendary drinking bouts serve as the backdrop to the "larger than life" story of artist Edgar Leeteg.Often referred to as the "American Gaugin" for his idyllic rendering of the Tahitian people in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, Leeteg is best known for his discovery and mastery of the age old technique of painting on velvet.Long lost in the shadows of art history, the paintings of Edgar Leeteg are now recognized as the archetype for modern velvet paintings - one of the morepopularand enduring art mediums in the world. ... Read more

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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

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Title: Recent publications.(The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism on Fin-de-Siecle Italy: Art, Beauty, and Culture, vol. Giuliana Pieri)(Sacramental Realism: Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic Literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1924-46), vol. 68)(Beyond Ecriture feminine': Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Yeanne Hyvrard, vol. 69)(La Disme de Penitanche' by Jehan de Yourni, vol. 7)('Francois II, roi de France' by Charles-Jean-FranCois Henault, vol. 8)(La Peyrouse dons l Isle de Tahiti, on le Danger des Presomptions: drame politique, vol. 10)(Book review)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 102Issue: 1Page: NA

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Legends of Polynesia in English, French, and Tahitian Hard cover, pictorial boards. Published without dust jacket. ... Read more