Tattooing the World : : Pacific Designs in Print and Skin / / Juniper Ellis.
In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these mar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 24 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About Pacific Languages
- Introduction: Living Scripts, Texts, Strategies
- 1. Tatau and Malu: Vital Signs in Contemporary Samoan Literature
- 2. "The Original Queequeg"? Te Pehi Kupe, Toi Moko, and Moby-Dick
- 3. Another Aesthetic: Beauty and Morality in Facial Tattoo
- 4. Marked Ethics: Erasing and Restoring the Tattoo
- 5. Locating the Sign: Visible Culture
- 6. Transfer of Desire: Engendering Sexuality
- Epilogue: The Question of Belonging
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index