This Is Not a Grass Skirt: On Fibre Skirts (Liku) and Female Tattooing (Veiqia) in Nineteenth Century Fiji

by Karen Jacobs

Book Overview

The Pacific 'grass skirt' has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualized 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 colors were lifetime...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9088908125
• ISBN13: 9789088908125
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Sidestone Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"