Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
This is not a grass skirt : on fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Sidestone Press
Place
Date
2019
Physical Description
211 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, diagrams ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9789088908125
Language
English
Fijian
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Fibre skirts, tattooing and the museum: liku and veiqia ; this is not a grass skirt ; skirts, clothing and the body in the Pacific ; the museum and the archive ; liku and veiqia: sources ; veiqia: 'collecting' tattooing ; limitations and aims -- Liku, Veiqia and the adorned body: gendering the body ; rite of passage ; wrapping in status ; assemblage -- collecting liku and veiqia: difference: liku, veiqia and early visitors ; domesticity: clothing transformations, 1830s-1860s -- curiosity: colonial bodies, 1860-1880s -- classifying liku and veiqia: liku: lost in translation ; veiqia as museum objects -- on separations and connections: veiqia: not mrerely museum objects ; re-awakening: the veiqia project ; making visible, making heard, making sense ; beginnings -- list of illustrations and credit lines -- bibliography -- index.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Tattooed women]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Notes
Dr. Karen Jacobs is Senior Lecturer at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Ethnology Library
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
Language Description
English and Fijian
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