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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION Stories Written on the Body
- CHAPTER 1 Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted Colonial Interpretations, Indigenous Tattoos
- CHAPTER 2 The "Ill Effects of It" Reading and Rewriting the Cross-Cultural Tattoo
- CHAPTER 3 Pricing the Part Economies of Violence and Stories of Scalps
- CHAPTER 4 Playing Possum: Scalping Survivors and Embodied Memory
- EPILOGUE Narrative Legacies and Settler Appropriations
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS