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Title Body trade : captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific / edited by Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn.

Publication Info. New York ; London : Routledge, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents 'Rare work amongst the professors' : the capture of indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia / Paul Turnbull -- Chained to their signs : remembering breastplates / Chris Healy -- How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian 'cannibals' in France / Yves Le Fur -- Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police / Mary Mackay -- Narratives of the self : Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Cannibalising indigenous texts : headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess', Coral Sea adventures / Robert Dixon -- Lines of fright : fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee / Paul Lyons -- Captivating fictions : Younâh! A Tasmanian aboriginal romance of the Cataract Gorge / Susan K. Martin -- 'Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd : the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene / Julie Carr -- Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women / Kate Darian-Smith -- Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bonton Eulogy : revisiting Meet me in St. Louis / Jeanette Hoorn -- Breeding out the black : Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia / Barbara Creed -- Blame and shame : the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II / Freda Freiberg.
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Subject Slave trade -- Oceania.
Slave trade.
Oceania.
Slave trade in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Creed, Barbara.
Hoorn, Jeanette.
Other Form: Print version: Body trade 0415938848 (OCoLC)48627728
ISBN 9781136713088 (electronic book)
1136713085 (electronic book)
0415938848
9780415938846
0415938422
9780415938426