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1 online resource (326 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Circus, Trade & Spectacle; 1 'Rare work amongst the professors': the capture of Indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia; 2 Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates; 3 How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian 'cannibals' in France; 4 Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police; Part II: Manufacturing the 'Cannibal' Body; 5 Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures |
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6 Cannibalising Indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess's Coral Sea adventures7 Lines of fright: fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee; Part III: Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis; 8 Captivating Fictions: Younâh! A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge; 9 'Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd': the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene; 10 Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women; Part IV: Film, Desire & the Colonised Body |
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11 Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet Me In St Louis12 Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia; 13 Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II; Endnotes; List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of Indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women -- Crimes against -- Pacific Area
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Forced labor -- Pacific Area
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Cannibalism -- Pacific Area
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area
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Indigenous peoples -- Pacific Area
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Cannibalism.
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Colonization.
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Forced labor.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Pacific Area -- Colonization
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Pacific Area.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoorn, Jeanette
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| ISBN |
9781136713019 |
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1136713018 |
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