Tattoo
Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Nicholas Thomas
Part One: Histories and Encounters
1. ‘Cureous Figures’: European Voyagers and Tatau/Tattoo in Polynesia, 1595-1800
Bronwen Douglas
2. ‘Speckled Bodies’: Russian Voyagers and Nuku Hivans, 1804
Elena Govor
3. Marks of Transgression: The Tattooing of Europeans in the Pacific Islands
Joanna White
4. Christian Skins: Tatau and the Evangelization of the Society Islands and Samoa
Anne D’Alleva
5. Governing Tattoo: Reflections on a Colonial Trial
Anna Cole
Part Two: Contemporary Exchanges
6. The Temptation of Brother Anthony: Decolonization and the Tattooing of Tony Fomison
Peter Brunt
7. Samoan Tatau as Global Practice
Sean Mallon
8. Multiple Skins: Space, Time and Tattooing in Tahiti
Makiko Kuwahara
9. Wearing Moko: Maori Facial Marking in Today’s World
Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
10. Beyond Modern Primitivism
Cyril Siorat
Epilogue: Embodied Exchanges and their Limits
Nicholas Thomas
References
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Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
“This historically rigorous and theoretically nuanced collection of essays [is] indispensable to students of world systems of art and culture.”
Art: Art--General Studies
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