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Tahiti - Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians (Hardcover)
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Tahiti - Polynesian Peasants and Proletarians (Hardcover)
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The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island
paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and
uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes
and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and
its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the
introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the
romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the
West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin
processes of industrialization and urbanization." This study of
Tahitian life concentrates upon two different communities. One is a
peasant community moving from subsistence farming to an increased
reliance upon the production of cash crops. The other is a
proletarian community whose members were at the time abandoning
farming and fishing in favor of wage labor. Finney compares the two
contemporaneous communities, enabling him to define different but
interrelated variables of the economic and social change. These are
responsible for Tahiti's evolution from a subsistence oriented
peasant life to a life based increasingly on cash crops and wage
labor. What happens to family life, work patterns, land use, and
other traditional modes of social organization when a small,
underdeveloped society is confronted with economic forces largely
beyond its control? In dealing with this question as it applies to
Tahiti, Finney makes an important contribution to our understanding
of how modernization affects a society once thought to be outside
the boundaries of the modern world. A major study in English of the
socio-economic forces at work in Tahiti, this book provides the
reader with both an understanding of the changing nature of
Tahitian life, and the reactions of Tahitians to such changes.
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