Tattoo : bodies, art, and exchange in the Pacific and the West / edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. - 252 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. - Objects/histories .

Includes bibliographical references p. (227-242) and index.

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.

0822335506 (cloth : alk. paper) 082233562X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Tattooing--History.
Tattooing--History.--Oceania
Tribal tattoos.
Body, Human--Social aspects.
Body, Human--Symbolic aspects.

GN419.3 / .T37 2005

391.6/5