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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West

Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West

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Series: Objects/Histories

Anthropology

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ISBN10: 082233562X
ISBN13: 9780822335627
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 23 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
The history of tattooing is shrouded in controversy. Citing the Polynesian derivation of the word tattoo, many scholars and tattoo enthusiasts have believed that the modern practice of tattooing originated in the Pacific, and specifically in the contacts between Captain Cook's seamen and the Tahitians. Tattoo demonstrates that while the history of tattooing is far more complex than this, Pacific body arts have provided powerful stimuli to the West intermittently from the eighteenth century to the present day. 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.

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