This is not a grass skirt : on fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji

This is not a grass skirt : on fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji / Karen Jacobs.

The Pacific 'grass skirt' has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with 'nakedness' are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garments themselves are examined, incl...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Karen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Women's clothing > Social aspects > Fiji.
Women's clothing > Fiji > History.
Skirts > Fiji.
Skirts
Women's clothing
Fiji
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; Notes; Glossary; 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 translationVeiqia as museum objects; On Separations and Connections; Veiqia: not merely museum objects; Re-awakening: The Veiqia Project; Making visible, making heard, making sense; Beginnings; List of Illustrations and credit lines; Bibliography; Lege pagina

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