Tattoo : bodies, art, and exchange in the Pacific and the West
Entry/Object ID
GN419.3.T37 2005
Description
The essays collected here document 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.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Nancy Micklewright
Notes
Gift of Nancy Micklewright, July 2025.
Lexicon
Search Terms
human body--social aspects, human body--symbolic aspects, tattooing--history, tattooing--oceania--history, tribal tattoos
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Editor
Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, Bronwen Douglas
Publisher
Duke University Press
Place Published
City
Durham
Date Published
2005
ISBN
9780822335627
LCCN
2004020723
Notes
Length: 252
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
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.
