Five Days with a Master Craftsman

Author: Va'a, Unasa L.F.

Source: Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Volume 10, Number 3, September 2006 , pp. 297-313(17)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

The Samoan tatau tradition provided a major inspiration for the Pacific, and then global revival of tattoo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Unlike other islands of the Pacific tatau, in the form of the pe'a for men and the malu for women, has been practised continuously (but never homogenously) in Samoa, despite missionary opposition in the nineteenth century. Based on recent field-work amongst diasporic Samoan communities in New Zealand Unasa Va'a explores local, transnational and diasporic practice and meaning of the increasingly globalised tatau.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.2752/136270406778050914

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