Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life

Index

260 Index Africa, 46, 123 Air Tahiti Nui, 98, 136, 148 Aldrich, Robert, 40, 42–43, 45, 46–47, 52, 69 Algeria, 42, 61, 69, 70 Alloula, Malek, 53, 108, 126 America, 8, 40. See also United States Appadurai, Arjun, 10, 222 Ari‘itai, Angélo Neuffer, 92–93 Ariyoshi, Rita, 132, 164 Ash, John, 128 Auckland City Art Gallery, 36 Australia, 11, 63, 85, 106, 107, 109 Austral Islands, 42 Bacchet, Philippe, 120 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 200 Ball, Martin, 11 Banks, Joseph, 34, 37 Barrillot, Bruno, 72–73 Barthes, Roland, 90–91 Baston, Guillaume, 36 Baudrillard, Jean, 128 Beaglehole, John, 225n11 Belgium, 85 Bender, Barbara, 234n12 Benjamin, Walter, 122–23 Berger, John, 121 Berman, Marshall, 44 Berrong, Richard, 226n18 Bhabha, Homi, 20, 223n26 Bionne, Henry, 42 Bligh, Captain William, 37–38 Blum, Virginia, 223n28 Boorstin, Daniel, 128 Bora Bora, 49, 178, 190; airplane flights to, 76; branding of, 115; environmental problems on, 140–41; escape to, 4; and filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, 77; hotel rooms on, 129; hotels on, 129–30, 132; images of lagoon at, 82; jaw of Ta‘aroa on, 65; store exhibit in Paris, 121–22; tourists’ attraction to, 107, 114, 115, 116, 120, 134 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 227n26 Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 33–34, 35, 49, 59, 76, 108, 113, 116 Boulay, Roger, 226n21 Boullaire, Jacques, 58 Bounty (candy bar), 78 index 261 Bourdieu, Pierre, 62 Bouteau, Nicole, 111 Braun, Bruce, 215 Breckenridge, Carol, 51 Brémond, Hubert, 22 Brenner, Neil, 40, 223n28 Britain, 46, 71 Brown, Michael, 223n28 Bruner, Edward, 234n12 Canada, 106 Carillet, Jean-Bernard, 8 Carroll, Rick, 161 Carteret Islands, 217 Casey, Edward, 223n27 Castells, Manuel, 43, 223n28 CEP, 70, 74, 75, 86, 105. See also nuclear testing Chateaubriand, 38 Chaze, Michou, 22 Chiang, Albert, 141 Chile, 85, 109 China, 40, 42 Chirac, Jacques, 84, 85, 91, 98 Claessen, Henri, 34 Clark, Thomas, 36 Clifford, James, 175 Cochinchine, 42 “Cocoon,” 125, 129, 131–33, 134, 137, 139, 140, 145, 151–52, 155, 174 Colombani, Henriette, 133 Colonialism, 4; effects of, 31, 47, 58, 94, 232–33n15; influence on Gauguin of, 57; opposition to, 43; value of, 43. See also France; French Polynesia; Pape‘ete; Photography; Postcards; Tahiti Colonies, 32, 37, 120, 206; creating knowledge of, 50–52, 53, 57, 58–59; as experimental terrain, 37, 43; of France, 42, 46, 47, 50–51, 58, 227n23; literary representations of, 48–50; the nation-state and, 39–41, 43; relationship with métropole of, 28–29, 31, 40, 42–43, 45, 60, 96, 123 Colonizers, 22, 27, 51, 123, 181, 183, 209, 210 Commons, Diane, 80, 81–83, 94, 109, 120 Connell, John 70, 225–26n14 Cook Islands, 75 Corney, Bolton, 225n4 Counter-spaces, 28, 183, 196, 198, 201, 206 Covit, Bernard, 71, 76 Dance, 54, 63, 85, 154, 172, 182; ‘aparima, 150; as cultural expression, 147, 148–49, 169, 183–84, 200, 207, 216; matahiapo and, 192, 194, 195, 200, 202, 203, 204; missionary opposition to, 39, 148; otea, 150; otea mau, 148, 233n18; as source of identity, 9, 28, 169; tourism and, 16, 28, 76–77, 78, 107, 108, 113, 119, 128, 133, 146, 147–48, 149–51, 152, 153, 185, 187, 233n20 Danielsson, Bengt, 72, 228n11, 229n28 Danielsson, Marie-Thérèse, 72, 228n11, 229n28 Dann, Graham, 104 Davis, Jeffrey, 222 Davis, Robert, 219 Daws, Gavan, 37 Dear, Michael, 223n28 De Brosses, Charles, 32, 225n5 De Certeau, Michael, 182, 215, 223n27, 234n16 Decolonization, 215–16 Delarue, Jean-Merry, 145 Deloria, Vine, 11, 200 Dening, Greg, 224–25n3, 229–30n1 Denmark, 109 La dépêche de Tahiti, 85–86, 89–91, 93, 94, 100, 110, 135–36, 138 Deroo, Eric, 52, 58 Deroo, Gabrielle, 58 Deschanel, Paul, 42 Desgraz, C. L. F., 40 Desmond, Jane, 141 262 index Despoix, Philippe, 33 De Taillac, Marie-Cécile, 58 Di Castri, Francesco, 228n18 Didier, Chantal, 94 Doom, John Taroanui, 72 Druick, Douglas, 56–58 Duff, Wilson, 96 Eco, Umberto, 128, 142 Eco-tourism, 107, 108 Edwards, Elizabeth, 108 L’Église Évangélique de la Polynésie Française, 9, 86, 91 Eisenman, Stephen, 227n24 Elden, Stuart, 223n28 Ellis, William, 39, 65, 159, 167 Emory, Kenneth, 167, 171 L’espace conçu, 27, 152; defined, 19–20; Lefebvre’s use of, 209; myth of Tahiti and, 123; Tahiti as, 31, 50, 59, 62, 77, 131; Tahua Vaiete as, 101–4. See also Lefebvre; Place; Space L’espace perçu...