Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the PacificBarbara Creed, Jeanette Hoorn Psychology Press, 2001 - 296 pages Captivity, cannibalism, the circus, trading in bodies, prostitution- these subjects are all examined in Body Trade, the first scholarly book to explore postcolonial issues in relation to the body in Australia and the Pacific. In this fascinating analysis, a team of international scholars from a range of disciplines, anthropology, literature, film, art history, and culture studies examine the historical significance of the way in which the human body has been held captive, traded, and placed on display throughout the western world. The essays cover an extraordinary range of topics from events, exhibitions, and artworks dating from the time of Captain Cook's voyages in the Pacific, to a discussion of contemporary film, video, literature, and painting. They explore the West's fascination with the body of the "other": the body as primitive, captive, cannibalized, tattooed, and erotic. |
Table des matières
the capture | 3 |
remembering breastplates | 24 |
Captors or captives? The Australian Native | 47 |
Chevalier Peter Dillons | 69 |
headhunting | 112 |
fear perception and the seen | 126 |
Captive White Bodies | 149 |
the White | 167 |
Material culture and the signs of captive white women | 180 |
Captivity melancholia and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes | 195 |
Jedda and the stolen | 208 |
the hidden history of | 231 |
List of illustrations | 283 |
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