Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories)

"Marking the body is a unique act of social and aesthetic primacy. The authors ofTattoobring these extraordinary body-marking traditions to life, elucidating in a range of sites and perspectives both the historic and contemporary importance of these forms. Through the lens of this engaging, insightful, and multidisciplinary volume, body practice and theory, history and sociology, art and ritual, East and West not only not only rub up against each other, but also inform and transform each other."-Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard UniversityTattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Objects/Histories), was published 2005 under ISBN 9780822335504 and ISBN 0822335506.