Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific
ISBN: 9781315023823
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Cultural Studies; Literature; Post-Colonial Studies; Gender;

Body Trade exposes 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.


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