This is not a grass skirt On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji

• Main Author: Jacobs, Karen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2019
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; anthropology; fibre skirts; female tattooing; collecting; body adornment; community engagement with museum collections; Fiji
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The Pacific 'grass skirt' has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised 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, incl...