Body trade
Subtitle: captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific
By: edited by Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn.
Contributors: Creed, Barbara.
Publisher: Routledge; Pluto Press; Pluto Press ; Dunnedin, N.Z.; University of Otago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY; Annandale, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Pacific Area; Forced labor -- Pacific Area; Cannibalism -- Pacific Area; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area; Pacific Area -- Colonization
Description: 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.