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Karen Jacobs

This is not a grass skirt

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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, including their link to other body adornments and modifications. In nineteenth-century Fiji, beautiful fibre skirts (liku) in a great variety of shapes and colours were lifetime companions for women. First fitted around puberty when she received her veiqia (tattooing), women's successive liku were adapted at marriage and during maternity, performing a multiplicity of soci… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-90-8890-813-2
  • EAN: 9789088908132
  • Produktnummer: 31595076
  • Verlag: Sidestone Press Academics
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 212 S.
  • Masse: H26.3 cm x B18.7 cm x D1.8 cm 825 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 825

Über den Autor


Dr. Karen Jacobs is Senior Lecturer at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia. She has worked on various international research projects, focusing on the Kamoro region in West Papua, on Polynesian Visual Arts, the Arts of Fiji, and material heritage of British missions in Africa and the Pacific.

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