Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers : : Craft, Creativity, and Cultural Heritage in Hawaii, California, and Australia /

Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers : : Craft, Creativity, and Cultural Heritage in Hawaii, California, and Australia / / Chris Gibson, Andrew Warren.

Over the last forty years, surfing has emerged from its Pacific islands origins to become a global industry. Since its beginnings more than a thousand years ago, surfing's icon has been the surfboard-its essential instrument, the point of physical connection between human and nature, body and w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016
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Warren, Andrew,
Gibson, Chris,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 59 illustrations, 5 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: A Historical Geography
  • Chapter 2. A Pacific Story: Surfboard Making in the Wood Era
  • Chapter 3. Foam Futures: Evolution of the Modern Surfboard Industry
  • Chapter 4. Made by Hand: A Custom System of Production
  • Chapter 5. Crafting Surfboards: Gender, Bodies, and Emotions
  • Chapter 6. Global Stoke: The Commercialization of Surfing
  • Chapter 7. Computer Shaping: Mechanized Surfboard Production
  • Chapter 8. Surfboard Making: New (and Uncertain) Horizons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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