Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific

by Barbara Creed (editor), Jeanette Hoorn (Editor)

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.

Genres: Anthropology, History

326 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

About the author

Barbara Creed is Professor of Cinema Studies and Head of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is author of the acclaimed The Monstrous-feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny and Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema. She is also a well-known film critic and media commentator, and her writings on cinema have been translated into many languages for a range of international journals and anthologies.

Reviews

[fletch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing collection of essays that work very well together to re-examine the "eye witness" accounts of cannibalism in the Pacific Islands, and how they served as rhetoric for the colonization of Australia and New Zealand. There's a great article about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair also. I got pretty obsessed with this book.