How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the ......
How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the ......
Next stop: Utopia. Our third edition takes a journey into
the tropical surf zone - where coral reefs fringe
impossibly exotic locales, where the sea is teeming with
life, and where the most perfect and powerful waves on
the planet are to be found. This book is guaranteed to
fire up a severe case of wanderlust among its readers.
James Midwinter's work isn't necessarily about the act of surfing, but the time and space around it. It seeks to suggest rather than dictate. Midwinter attempts to conjure a sense of place and evoke an individual response. The viewer is invited to submit to the scene and step away from the distractions of modern life - observe, breath in and ......
Teahupoo is a dangerous reef break at the end of the road in Tahiti, known as the most fearsome wave on earth. Over a period of ten days in 2011, the biggest storm of the year generated a swell like no other. This book, with accompanying DVD, celebrates and documents ten days that changed surfing forever, with interviews of those who rode it ......
This book considers the unique perspective found in the sport of surfing for reconsidering questions in the philosophy of sport. Through the lens of surfing Brennan explores questions of ethics, aesthetics, gender equality, the nature of sport, Olympism, technology, and the good life.
This stunningly illustrated volume provides readers with a unique insight into this fascinating and increasingly popular past-time as well as expert information and advice on how to become a great surfer.Divided into three sections for easy reference, "Surfing" begins with an introduction to the origins of surfing and a guide to the equipment, ......
