Review:
"General audiences as well as scholars in cultural studies, history, and the social sciences will find these excellent resources. Highly recommend."
--S. Ferzacca," Choice"
"[T]his useful and beautifully illustrated volume explores, as best it can, some of those meaningful moments of meeting and exchange inking the skin of Pacific history."
--April K. Henderson, "The Contemporary Pacifi"c
"[Tattoo] unites archival and ethnographic research and is very well illustrated, with drawings, photographs and other representations of tattooing and tattoos. . . . Vibrant images of tattooed bodies, depicted in a variety of media and representational genres, float throughout the volume, telling stories of their own, and highlighting the powerful efficacy of tattooing as an embodied practice."
--Haidy Geismar, "Pacific Affairs"
"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 other."--Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
"This historically rigorous and theoretically nuanced collection of essays takes the reader on a global journey marked by successive phases of incomprehension, clash, desire, appropriation, and indigenous renewal. Through their meticulous chartings of the permutations of local differences, changing constructs of art, and shifting power relations the book produces critical new understandings of the process of cross-cultural translation--and its impossibility--indispensable to students of world systems of art and culture."--Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History, Carleton University
About the Author:
Nicholas Thomas is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books include Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook and In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories, published by Duke University Press. In 2002, he co-curated "Skin Deep: The History of Tattooing" at the National Maritime Museum in London. Anna Cole is the Research Coordinator of the "Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied Art and Cultural Exchange" project based at Goldsmiths College. Bronwen Douglas is a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. She is the author of Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology.
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