LEADER 04638nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910779117503321 005 20230927211216.0 010 $a0-231-14368-0 010 $a0-231-51310-0 024 7 $a10.7312/elli14368 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105149 035 $a(EBL)949009 035 $a(OCoLC)818858124 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721882 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11384251 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721882 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693166 035 $a(PQKB)11176947 035 $a(DE-B1597)458834 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954044 035 $a(OCoLC)1029823414 035 $a(OCoLC)1032677248 035 $a(OCoLC)1037969736 035 $a(OCoLC)1041991709 035 $a(OCoLC)1046622791 035 $a(OCoLC)1046997441 035 $a(OCoLC)1049610498 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878059 035 $a(OCoLC)979574811 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231513104 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL949009 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579970 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL675014 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC949009 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105149 100 $a20071002h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTattooing the world $ePacific designs in print & skin /$fJuniper Ellis 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2008. 210 4$aŠ2008 215 $a1 online resource (x, 275 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a1-322-43732-7 311 0 $a0-231-14369-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note About Pacific Languages --$tIntroduction: Living Scripts, Texts, Strategies --$t1. Tatau and Malu: Vital Signs in Contemporary Samoan Literature --$t2. "The Original Queequeg"? Te Pehi Kupe, Toi Moko, and Moby-Dick --$t3. Another Aesthetic: Beauty and Morality in Facial Tattoo --$t4. Marked Ethics: Erasing and Restoring the Tattoo --$t5. Locating the Sign: Visible Culture --$t6. Transfer of Desire: Engendering Sexuality --$tEpilogue: The Question of Belonging --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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.Tattooing the World is the first book on tattoo literature and culture. Juniper Ellis traces the origins and significance of modern tattoo in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, Albert Wendt, and Sia Figiel. Traditional Pacific tattoo patterns are formed using an array of well-defined motifs. They place the individual in a particular community and often convey genealogy and ideas of the sacred. However, outside of the Pacific, those who wear and view tattoos determine their meaning and interpret their design differently. Reading indigenous historiography alongside Western travelogue and other writings, Ellis paints a surprising portrait of how culture has been etched both on the human form and on a body of literature. 606 $aEthnicity 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) 606 $aTattooing$xSocial aspects 615 0$aEthnicity. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) 615 0$aTattooing$xSocial aspects. 676 $a391.6/5 700 $aEllis$b Juniper$01525382 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779117503321 996 $aTattooing the world$93766728 997 $aUNINA