Body Trade - Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific (Paperback)

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.