| Description |
xxii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part 1: Circus, trade & spectacle: "Rare work amongst the professors" : the capture of Indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia / Paul Turnbull -- Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates / Chris Healy -- How can one be Oceanian?: the display of Polynesian "cannibals" in France / Yves le Fur -- Captors or captives? : the Australian Native Mounted Police / Mary Mackay -- Pt 2: Manufacturing the "cannibal" body: Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon;s Fijian cannibal adventures / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Cannibalising Indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in Ion Idriess' Coral Sea adventures / Robert Dixon -- Lines of fright: fear, perception and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee / Paul Lyons -- Pt 3: Captive white bodies & the colonial imaginary in Terra Australis: Captivating fictions: Younah! a Tasmanian Aboriginal romance of the Cataract Gorge / Susan K. Martin -- "cabin'd, cribb'd and confin'd: the white woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene / Julie Carr -- Material culture and the "signs" of captive white women / Kate Darian-Smith -- Part 4: Film, desire & the colonised body: Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet me in St Louis / Jeanette Hoorn -- Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia / Barbara Creed -- Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II / Freda Freiberg |
| Summary |
Captivity, cannibalism, the circus, trading in bodies, prostitution, the Stolen Generation - this book examines the historical and cultural significance of the way in which the human body has been held captive, traded and placed on display throughout the western world. It is the first scholarly book on the subject |
| Analysis |
Cannibalism |
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Colonialism |
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Cultural anthropology |
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History |
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Human rights |
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Indigenous populations |
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Pacific Islands |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-282) and index |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area.
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Cannibalism.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Indigenous peoples -- Australia.
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Indigenous peoples -- Pacific Area.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Colonization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562
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| Author |
Creed, Barbara.
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Hoorn, Jeanette.
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| LC no. |
00002207 |
| ISBN |
0415938422 (Routledge) |
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1864031840 (Pluto) |
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187727612X (Otago) |
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9780415938426 (Routledge) |
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