Tattoo : bodies, art, and exchange in the Pacific and the West / edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas.

Other author Thomas, Nicholas.
Other author Cole, Anna, 1969-
Other author Douglas, Bronwen.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Description252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesObjects/histories
Objects/histories. ^A476603
Contents Introduction / Nicholas Thomas -- 'Cureous figures' : European voyagers and tatau/tattoo in Polynesia, 1595-1800 / Bronwen Douglas -- 'Speckled bodies' : Russian voyagers and nuku hivans, 1804 / Elena Govor -- Marks of transgression : the tattooing of Europeans in the Pacific Islands / Joanna White -- Christian skins : tatau and the evangelization 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 and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Beyond the modern primitivism / Cyril Siorat -- Epilogue.
General note"Originally published in Great Britain in 2005 by Reaktion Books"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.
LCCN 2004020723
ISBN0822335506 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN082233562X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN419.3 .T37 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold