Contents

• 1. Introduction. The corporeality of tattooing and identities
• Ideology and the body
• Ideological shifts of Tahitian tattoo history
• The temporality of tattooing
• The spatiality of tattooing
• Methodology of the study of the body
• The structure of the book
• 1. Discontinuity and displacement : place and history of tattooing
• Recovering Ma’ohi skin, renaissance of contemporary tattooing
• Tattooing from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century
• Conclusion
• 2. Practice and form
• Practice of tattooing
• Form of tattoos
• Categories of tattoo form
• Conclusion
• 3. Marking Taure’are’a : social relationships and tattooing
• Gender, ethnic and age differences in Tahitian society
• Tattooists in Tahiti
• Tahitian tattoo world
• Creation and transformation of tattooing
• Conclusion
• 4. Exchanges in Taputapuatea : localization and globalization
• Tatau i Taputapuatea
• Tahitian and non-Tahitian interest in other tattooing
• The ownership and transmission of tattooing
• Friendship bonds in the Tahitian tattoo world
• Exchange in Taputapuatea
• Non-Polynesian tattooing : the case of Michel Raapoto
• Four ownerships of tattoo
• Conclusion
• 5. Dancing and tattooing at festivals : Tahitian, Polynesian and Marquesan identities
• Festivals and images of islands
• Heiva
• Festival of Pacific Arts
• Marquesan Art Festival
• Conclusion
• 6. Inscribing the past, present and future : in Nuutania prison
• The road to Nuutania prison
• Le centre pénitentiaire de Nuutania
• Prison life and tattooing
• The inmate tattooists
• The spatiality of prison tattooing
• Body in the past, present and future
• Conclusion
• Glossary