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Kuwahara, Makiko.
Subjects
Tahitian language -- Texts.
Tattooing -- French Polynesia -- History.
Tattooing -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti (Island) -- History.
Human body -- Social aspects -- French Polynesia.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- French Polynesia.
Sex role -- French Polynesia.
Festivals -- French Polynesia.
Prisons -- Social aspects -- French Polynesia.
French Polynesia -- Social life and customs.
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Tattoo : an anthropo...
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Tattoo : an anthropology / Makiko Kuwahara.
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Kuwahara, Makiko.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
Subjects
Tahitian language -- Texts.
Tattooing -- French Polynesia -- History.
Tattooing -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti (Island) -- History.
Human body -- Social aspects -- French Polynesia.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- French Polynesia.
Sex role -- French Polynesia.
Festivals -- French Polynesia.
Prisons -- Social aspects -- French Polynesia.
French Polynesia -- Social life and customs.
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004124.html
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2005004124-b.html
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2005004124-d.html
ISBN:
9781845201548 (cloth)
184520154X (cloth)
9781845201555 (pbk.) :
1845201558 (pbk.)
Description:
xix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
English ed.
Contents:
1. Introduction. The corporeality of tattooing and identities -- Ideology and the body -- Ideological shifts of Tahitian tattoo history -- The temporality of tattooing -- The spatiality of tattooing -- Methodology of the study of the body -- The structure of the book -- 1. Discontinuity and displacement : place and history of tattooing -- Recovering Ma'ohi skin, renaissance of contemporary tattooing -- Tattooing from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Conclusion -- 2. Practice and form -- Practice of tattooing -- Form of tattoos -- Categories of tattoo form -- Conclusion -- 3. Marking Taure'are'a : social relationships and tattooing -- Gender, ethnic and age differences in Tahitian society -- Tattooists in Tahiti -- Tahitian tattoo world -- Creation and transformation of tattooing -- Conclusion -- 4. Exchanges in Taputapuatea : localization and globalization -- Tatau i Taputapuatea -- Tahitian and non-Tahitian interest in other tattooing -- The ownership and transmission of tattooing -- Friendship bonds in the Tahitian tattoo world -- Exchange in Taputapuatea -- Non-Polynesian tattooing : the case of Michel Raapoto -- Four ownerships of tattoo -- Conclusion -- 5. Dancing and tattooing at festivals : Tahitian, Polynesian and Marquesan identities -- Festivals and images of islands -- Heiva -- Festival of Pacific Arts -- Marquesan Art Festival -- Conclusion -- 6. Inscribing the past, present and future : in Nuutania prison -- The road to Nuutania prison -- Le centre pénitentiaire de Nuutania -- Prison life and tattooing -- The inmate tattooists -- The spatiality of prison tattooing -- Body in the past, present and future -- Conclusion -- Glossary.
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In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. More than 150 years later, tattooing is once again thriving in French Polynesia. This engrossing book documents the meaning of tattooing in contemporary French Polynesian society. In this case, its resurgence is part of a vibrant cultural revival movement. Kuwahara examines the complex significance of the art, including its relationship to gender, youth culture, ethnicity and prison life. She also provides unique photographic evidence of the sophisticated techniques and varied forms that characterize French Polynesian tattooing today. [from publisher description].
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H 391.65 Ku
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