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Body trade : captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific / edited by Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Annandale, N.S.W. : Dunedin, N.Z. : Routledge ; Pluto Press ; University of Otago Press, 2001Description: xxii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 187727612X
  • 9781877276125
  • 1864031840
  • 9781864031843
  • 0415938422
  • 9780415938426
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4613 23
LOC classification:
  • DU29. B64 2001
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Circus, Trade & Spectacle -- 1. 'Rare work amongst the professors': the capture of indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia -- 2. Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates -- 3. How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian 'cannibals' in France -- 4. Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police -- Pt. II. Manufacturing the 'Cannibal' Body -- 5. Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures -- 6. Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess', Coral Sea adventures -- 7. Lines of fright: fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- Pt. III. Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis -- 8. Captivating Fictions: Younah! A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge -- 9. 'Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd': the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene -- 10. Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women -- Pt. IV. Film, Desire & the Colonised Body -- 11. Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet Me In St. Louis -- 12. Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia -- 13. Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II -- Endnotes -- List of illustrations -- Notes on the contributors -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-282) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Circus, Trade & Spectacle -- 1. 'Rare work amongst the professors': the capture of indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia -- 2. Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates -- 3. How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian 'cannibals' in France -- 4. Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police -- Pt. II. Manufacturing the 'Cannibal' Body -- 5. Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures -- 6. Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess', Coral Sea adventures -- 7. Lines of fright: fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- Pt. III. Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis -- 8. Captivating Fictions: Younah! A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge -- 9. 'Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd': the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene -- 10. Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women -- Pt. IV. Film, Desire & the Colonised Body -- 11. Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet Me In St. Louis -- 12. Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia -- 13. Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II -- Endnotes -- List of illustrations -- Notes on the contributors -- Index.

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