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Title Tattoo : bodies, art, and exchange in the Pacific and the West / edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas
Published London : Reaktion Books, 2005

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Description 252 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction / Nicholas Thomas -- Cureous figures : European voyagers and tatau/tattoo in Polynesia, 1595-1800 / Bronwen Douglas -- Speckled bodies : Russian voyagers and nuku hivans / Elena Govor -- Marks of transgression : the tattooing of Europeans in the Pacific Islands / Joanna White -- Christian skins : tatau and the evangelisation of the Society Islands and Samoa / Anne D'Alleva -- Governing tattoo : reflections on a colonial trial / Anna Cole -- The temptation of Brother Anthony : decolonization and the tattooing of Tony Fomison / Peter Brunt -- Samoan tatau as global practice / Sean Mallon -- Multiple skins : space, time, and tattooing in Tahiti / Makiko Kuwahara -- Wearing moko : Maori facial marking in today's world / Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua & Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Beyond the modern primitive / Cyril Siorat -- Epilogue
Summary This book documents the extraordinary, intertwined histories of processes of cultural exchange and Pacific tattoo practices. Art historians, anthropologists and scholars of Oceania provide a transcultural history of tattooing in and beyond the Pacific
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references : pages 227-242
Subject Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
Tattooing -- Pacific Area -- History.
Tattooing -- Europe -- History.
Tattoo artists.
Tattooing -- History.
Tattooing -- Oceania -- History.
Tribal tattoos.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Author Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-
Douglas, Bronwen.
Cole, Anna, 1969-
ISBN 186189225X
Other Titles Bodies, art, and exchange in the Pacific and the West