"Juniper Ellis traces the origins and significance of modern tattoo in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, Albert Wendt, and Sia ...

... 9780231143691 pbk , $ 27.50 English professor Ellis ( Loyola College , MD ) examines tattooing , primarily in Polynesia and Micronesia and secondarily as Westerners adopted it after contact in the 17th - 19th centuries . Contemporary ...