Body trade : captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific /
edited by Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn.
- xxii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-282) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Circus, Trade & Spectacle -- 'Rare work amongst the professors': the capture of indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia -- Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates -- How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian 'cannibals' in France -- Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police -- Manufacturing the 'Cannibal' Body -- Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures -- Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess', Coral Sea adventures -- Lines of fright: fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis -- Captivating Fictions: Younah! A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge -- 'Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd': the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene -- Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women -- Film, Desire & the Colonised Body -- Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet Me In St. Louis -- Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia -- Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II -- Endnotes -- List of illustrations -- Notes on the contributors -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. Pt. III. 8. 9. 10. Pt. IV. 11. 12. 13.
Human body--Social aspects--Australia Human body--Social aspects--Pacific Area Aboriginal Australians--Government relations Indigenous peoples--Pacific Area Cannibalism.