Books By Elena Govor - Author

Elena Govor was born in Russia and now lives in Australia, where she completed her doctorate in history at the Australian National University in 1996. Her research focuses on cross-cultural contacts between Russians and the peoples of the Pacific and Australia, in publications including: 'Speckled Bodies: Russian Voyagers and Nuku Hivans, 1804' in Nicholas Thomas et al., Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Reaktion Books, 2005); Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific (UHP, 2010), chapters about South Pacific collections in Russian museums in Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art & European Museums, and Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern Expedition. In affiliation with the Australian National University, she has collaborated on the international projects: 'Tatau/tattoo: Embodied art and cultural exchange' (Getty Grant Program); 'Artefacts of encounter' and 'Pacific Presences: Oceanic art and European museums' (Cambridge Museum of Archaeolog