Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West

"This historically rigorous and theoretically nuanced collection of essays takes the reader on a global journey marked by successive phases of incomprehension, clash, desire, appropriation, and indigenous renewal. Through their meticulous chartings of the permutations of local differences, changing constructs of art, and shifting power relations the book produces critical new understandings of the process of cross-cultural translation--and its impossibility--indispensable to students of world systems of art and culture."--Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History, Carleton University