Body Trade Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific

Body Trade explores the history of the South Pacific traffic in human bodies from the eighteenth century to the present. Scholars from art history, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and film examine the 'captive body' as it is represented in a range of media-----from Captain Cook's Journals and Melville's novels to contemporary painting, popular culture, and such movies as Jedda, Meet Me In St Louis and The Murmuring . Revisiting Euorpe's colonial project in the Pacific, 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.Creed, Barbara is the author of 'Body Trade Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific' with ISBN 9780415938426 and ISBN 0415938422.