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English
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Highly Structured Tourist Art : Form and Meaning of the Polynesian Cultural Center
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Contemporary Pacific
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Spring 1994
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6
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59-86
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The present study leaves aside the continuing controversy over the center's authenticity versus its commercialism to introduce anaesthetic interpretation of the center's form and meaning. In so doing, the study offers insight into an unexpected capacity of tourist art to carry deep religious meanings