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| Genre/Form: | Pasifika History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tattoo. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)989089714 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Thomas; Anna Cole; Bronwen Douglas |
| ISBN: | 0822335506 9780822335504 082233562X 9780822335627 186189225X 9781861892256 |
| OCLC Number: | 56490884 |
| Description: | 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Objects/histories. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas. |
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"Marking the body is a unique act of social and aesthetic primacy. The authors of Tattoo bring these extraordinary body-marking traditions to life, elucidating in a range of sites and perspectives both the historic and contemporary importance of these forms. Through the lens of this engaging, insightful, and multidisciplinary volume, body practice and theory, history and sociology, art and ritual, East and West not only not only rub up against each other, but also inform and transform each other."-Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University "This historically rigorous and theoretically nuanced collection of essays takes the reader on a global journey marked by successive phases of incomprehension, clash, desire, appropriation, and indigenous renewal. Through their meticulous chartings of the permutations of local differences, changing constructs of art, and shifting power relations the book produces critical new understandings of the process of cross-cultural translation-and its impossibility-indispensable to students of world systems of art and culture."-Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History, Carleton University Read more...
