Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and SkinColumbia University Press, 3. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 304 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 markings singled him out as a freak. His tattoos frightened women and children, and ministers warned their congregations that viewing O'Connell's markings would cause the ink to transfer to the skin of their unborn children. In many ways, O'Connell's story exemplifies the unique history of the modern tattoo, which began in the Pacific and then spread throughout the world. No matter what form it has taken, the tattoo has always embodied social standing, aesthetics, ethics, culture, gender, and sexuality. Tattoos are personal and corporate, private and public. They mark the profane and the sacred, the extravagant and the essential, the playful and the political. From the Pacific islands to the world at large, tattoos are a symbolic and often provocative form of expression and communication. |
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Vital Signs in Contemporary Samoan Literature | |
2 The Original Queequeg? Te Pehi Kupe Toi Moko and MobyDick | |
Beauty and Morality in Facial Tattoo | |
Erasing and Restoring the Tattoo | |
Visible Culture | |
Engendering Sexuality | |
The Question of Belonging | |
Notes | |