Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific,9780415938846

Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific

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ISBN13: 9780415938846
ISBN10: 0415938848
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-04-12
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Body Tradeexplores the history of the South Pacific traffic in human bodies from the eighteenth century to the present. Scholars from art history, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and film examine the 'captive body' as it is represented in a range of media-----from Captain Cook's Journals and Melville's novels to contemporary painting, popular culture, and such movies asJedda, Meet Me In St LouisandThe Murmuring. Revisiting Euorpe's colonial project in the Pacific,Body Tradeexposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Peter Hulme
Introduction xiii
Part I: Circus, Trade & Spectacle 1(66)
`Rare work amongst the professors': the capture of indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia
3(21)
Paul Turnbull
Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates
24(12)
Chris Healy
How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian `cannibals' in France
36(11)
Yves Le Fur
Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police
47(20)
Mary Mackay
Part II: Manufacturing the `Cannibal' Body 67(82)
Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures
69(43)
Gananath Obeyesekere
Cannibalising indigenous texts: Headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess', Coral Sea adventures
112(14)
Robert Dixon
Lines of fright: fear, perception and the `seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee
126(23)
Paul Lyons
Part III: Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis 149(44)
Captivating Fictions: Youndh! A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge
151(16)
Susan K. Martin
`Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd': the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene
167(13)
Julie Carr
Material culture and the `signs' of captive white women
180(13)
Kate Darian-Smith
Part IV: Film, Desire & the Colonised Body 193(46)
Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet Me In St Louis
195(13)
Jeanette Hoorn
Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia
208(23)
Barbara Creed
Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II
231(8)
Freda Freiberg
Endnotes 239(44)
List of illustrations 283(2)
Notes on the contributors 285(4)
Index 289

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