Tattoo Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and Europe

Other author Thomas, Nicholas
Other author Cole, Anna
Other author Douglas, Bronwen
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Reaktion Books, Limited Grantham : Grantham Book Services [Distributor]
Description256 p. ill 09.750 x 07.500 in.
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Summary Annotation The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term tattoo entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cooks voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, New Zealand and Polynesia. In recent years these early contacts have been revived, as native tattooists from Oceania have begun tattooing non-Polynesians in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Tattoois both a fascinating book about these early OceanicEuropean exchanges, that also documents developments up to the present day, and the first to look at the history of tattooing in Oceania itself. Documenting these complex cultural interactions in the first part of the book, the authors move from issues of encounter, representation and exchange to the interventions of missionaries and the colonial state in local tattoo practices. Highly illustrated with many previously unseen images, for example the original voyage sketches of the first Russian circumnavigation of 18036, this is a fascinating account of early tattooing and cultural exchange in Oceania, and will appeal to the wide audience interested in the history of tattooing.
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