Description |
252 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm |
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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.
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Tattooing -- Pacific Area -- History.
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Tattooing -- Europe -- History.
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Tattoo artists.
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Tattooing -- History.
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Tattooing -- Oceania -- History.
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Tribal tattoos.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Author |
Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-
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Douglas, Bronwen.
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Cole, Anna, 1969-
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ISBN |
186189225X |
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