Author: Thomas, Nicholas ; Cole, Anna ; & Douglas, Bronwen ; editors:
Title: Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 2005. orig.boards. 27x18cm, 252 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ 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.

Keywords: Oceania Ethnography, Tattooing History, Pacific Polynesia, Anthropology, Tattoo Tattoos, Ethnology, Samoa, ,