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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jacobs, Karen, 1976- author.     Subjects     Women's clothing -- Social aspects -- Fiji.     Women's clothing -- Fiji -- History.     Skirts -- Fiji.     Tattooed women -- Fiji -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jacobs, Karen, 1976- author.       by title:      This is not a grass ...         MARC Display

This is not a grass skirt : on fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji / Karen Jacobs. by Jacobs, Karen, 1976- author. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2019] Subjects Women's clothing -- Social aspects -- Fiji.   Women's clothing -- Fiji -- History.   Skirts -- Fiji.   Tattooed women -- Fiji -- History. ISBN:  9088908133 9789088908132 (hardcover) 9789088908125 (paperback) : 9088908125 (paperback)) Description:  211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  The Pacific 'grass skirt' has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with 'nakedness' are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garments themselves are examined, including their link to other body adornments and modifications. In nineteenth-century Fiji, beautiful fibre skirts (liku) in a great variety of shapes and colours were lifetime companions for women. First fitted around puberty when she received her veiqia (tattooing), women's successive liku were adapted at marriage and during maternity, performing a multiplicity of social functions.This book is based on a systematic investigation of previously understudied liku in museum collections around the world. Through the prism of one garment, multiple ways of looking at dress are considered, including their classification in museums and archives. Also highlighted are associated tattooing (veiqia) practices, perceptions of modesty, the intricacies of intercultural encounters and the significance of collections and cultural heritage today. The book is intended for those interested in often neglected women's objects and practices in the Pacific, in dress and adornment more generally and in the use of museum collections and archives. It is richly illustrated with rare and previously unpublished paintings and drawings, as well as many examples of liku themselves.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 391.20996 Ja Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Hawaiian & Pacific H 391.20996 Ja Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 391.20996 Jacobs Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Hawaiian Nonfiction H 391.20996 Ja Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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