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Tattooing the world : pacific designs in print & skin /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Living scripts, texts, strategies
- Tatau and malu : vital signs in contemporary Samoan literature
- "The original Queequeg"? Te Pehi Kupe, Toi Moko, and Moby-Dick
- Another aesthetic : beauty and morality in facial tattoo
- Marked ethics : erasing and restoring the tattoo
- Locating the sign : visible culture
- Transfer of desire : engendering sexuality
- Epilogue : The question of belonging.