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Contents Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction NICHOLAS THOMAS PART ONE: HISTORIES AND ENCOUNTERS 1 _Cureous Figures_: European Voyagers and Tatau/Tattoo in Polynesia, 1595-1800 1 BRONWEN DOUGLAS 2 _Speckled Bodies_: Russian Voyagers and Nuku Hivans 23 ELENA GOVOR 3 Marks of Transgression: The Tattooing of Europeans in the Pacific Islands 44 JOANNA WHITE 4 Christian Skins: Tatau and the Evangelisation of the Society Islands and Samoa 70 ANNE D_ALLEVA 5 Governing Tattoo: Reflections on a Colonial Trial 91 ANNA COLE PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY EXCHANGES 6 The Temptation of Brother Anthony. Decolonization and the Tattooing of Tony Fomison 108 PETER BRUNT 7 Samoan Tatau as Global Practice 130 SEAN MALLON 8 Multiple Skins: Space, Time and Tattooing in Tahiti 159 MAKIKO KUWAHARA 9 Wearing Moko: Maori Facial Marking in Today_s World 181 LINDA WAIMARIE NIKORA, MOHI RUA & NGAHUIA TE AWEKOTUKU 10 Beyond the Modern Primitive 196 CYRIL SIORAT Epilogue 214 References 219 Select Bibliography 252
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Tattooing -- History.
Tattooing -- Oceania -- History.
Tribal tattoos.
Body, Human -- Social aspects.
Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects.