Under the Skin : Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America.

Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as sign...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Temas:
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Scalping > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Scalping > United States > History > 18th century.
Tattooing > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Tattooing > United States > History > 18th century.
History-Colonialism.
History-Native American.
HISTORY / Modern / General.
Native American indigenous history.
adoption.
alliance.
battle.
belonging.
body modification.
bounties.
colonial history.
cross cultural.
identity.
pain.
race.
ritual.
scalping.
settler.
seventeenth eighteenth century.
sixteenth century.
story.
survivor.
tattooing.
violence.
war.
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