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About this title: 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 ...
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Thomas, Nicholas; Cole, Anna; & Douglas, Bronwen; Editors:
Binding: orig. boards
Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham [NC]
Date Published: 2005
Description: Minor rubbing. VG. 27x18cm, 252 pp. 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 ... read more
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West-History of...
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West-History of Tatooing
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Thomas, Nicholas
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Thomas, Nicholas, and Cole, Anna, and Douglas, Bronwen
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13: 9780822335627
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Tattoo Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Nicholas Thomas
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories)
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Tattoo-Tattoos, Tatooing Artists-Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Thomas, Nicholas / Anna Cole Et Al
Edition: First
Binding: Soft Cover
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13: 9780822335627
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Description: Photos. NEW. 7-1/2 x 10 x 3/4 " 082233562X 2005 Softcover...BRAND NEW from publisher...Never opened, Never owned, Never marked...Gift Giving quality...nearly 8 x 10" in size...252 pages with index...illustrated with B&W and Color photographs...The history of tattoos and 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 ... read more
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories)
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Thomas, Nicholas
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories)
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Thomas, Nicholas
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories)
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Thomas, Nicholas
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Tattoo Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Nicholas Thomas
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories)
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Editor-Anna Cole; Editor-Bronwen Douglas
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Tattoo
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Thomas, Nicholas (Edt)
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Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
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Description: "Marking the body is a unique act of social and aesthetic primacy. The authors of "Tattoo" bring these extraordinary body-marking traditions to life, elucidating in a range of sites and perspectives both the historic and contemporary importance of these forms. Through the lens of this engaging, insightful, and multidisciplinary volume, body practice and theory, history and sociology, art and ritual, East and West not only not only rub up against each other, but also inform and transform each ... read more
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