Makiko Kuwuhara

Tattoo (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthropology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing, because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. More than 150 years later, tattooing is once again thriving in French Polynesia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323634
• Artikelnr.: 60032252

Autorenporträt

Makiko Kuwahara is Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Discontinuity and Displacement: Place and History of Tattooing
Recovering Ma'ohi Skin - Renaissance of Contemporary Tattooing
Tattooing from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century
Tapu and Body- Tattooing in the Late Eighteenth Century
Different Skins-Change through European Contact
Religious Influence: Evangelization and Tattooing
Law and Punishment
Tattooing and Resistance
Conclusion
Practice and Form
Practice of Tattooing
Form of Tattoos
Categories of Tattoo Form
Conclusion
Marking Taure'are' a: Social Relationships and Tattooing
Gender, Ethnic and Age Differences in Tahitian Society
Tattooists in Tahiti
Tahitian Tattoo World
Creation and Transformation of Tattooing
Conclusion
Exchanges in Taputapuatea: Localization and Globalization
Tatau i Taputapuatea
Tahitian and Non-Tahitian Interests on the Other Tattooing
The Ownership and Transmission of Tattooing
Friendship Bond in the Tahitian Tattoo World
Exchange in Taputapuatea
Tattooing Non-Polynesian: the Case of Michel Raapoto
Four Ownerships of Tattoo
Conclusion
Dancing and Tattooing at Festivals: Tahitian, Polynesian and Marquesan Identities
Festivals and Images of Islands
Heiva
Festival of Pacific Arts
Marquesan Art Festival
Conclusion
Inscribing the Past, Present and Future: In the Nuutania Prison
The Road to the Nuutania Prison
Le centre pnitentiare de Nuutania
The Prison Life and Tattooing
The Inmate Tattooists
The Spatiality of Prison Tattooing
Body in the Past, Present and Future
Conclusion
Conclusion