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As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describ

In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. Th

Tahiti evokes visions of white beaches and beautiful women. This imagined paradise, created by Euro-American romanticism, endures today as the bedrock of Tahiti

This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally crea

In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing, because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. More tha