Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society - Couverture souple

Lockwood, Victoria S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155587391X ISBN 13 : 9781555873912

Editeur : Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 1992

Synopsis

As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation brought about by missionaries, merchants, and French colonisers - a transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands' rapid modernisation and incorporation into the French welfare state. Lockwood's analysis of the impact of capitalism centres around two major themes in Third World development: the structural changes that take place in non-Western socioeconomic systems as capitalist methods of production overwhelm indigenous economic organisation; and the nature of the increasing social, economic and political subordination of women that accompanies Westernisation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 155587391X
• ISBN 13: 9781555873912
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible