Transgenderism, locality, and the Miss Galaxy beauty pageant in Tonga

American Ethnologist

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 534-566

  Niko, Besnier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beauty pageants; Globalization; Language use; Locality; Resistance; Tonga; Transgenderism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036703689     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2002.29.3.534     Document Type: Review

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