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Written on the body : the tattoo in European and American history /

"Despite the social sciences' growing fascination with tattooing--and the immense popularity of tattoos themselves--the practice has not left much of a historical record. And, until very recently, there was no good context for writing a serious history of tattooing in the West. This collec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Caplan, Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Stigma and tattoo / C.P. Jones
  • The tattoo in the later Roman empire and beyond / Mark Gustafson
  • Insular Celtic tattooing : history, myth and metaphor / Charles W. MacQuarrie
  • Wearing the universe : symbolic markings in early modern England / Jennipher Allen Rosecrans
  • The Renaissance tattoo / Juliet Fleming
  • Curiously marked : tattooing and gender difference in eighteenth-century British perceptions of the South Pacific / Harriet Guest
  • Godna : inscribing Indian convicts in the nineteenth century / Clare Anderson
  • Skin deep devotions : religious tattoos and convict transportation to Australia / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Ian Duffield
  • Body commodification? : Class and tattoos in Victorian Britain / James Bradley
  • 'National tattooing' : traditions of tattooing in nineteenth-century Europe / Jane Caplan
  • Branding the other/tattooing the self : bodily inscription among convicts in Russia and the Soviet Union / Abby M. Schrader
  • On display : tattooed entertainers in America and Germany / Stephan Oettermann
  • The changing image of tattooing in American culture, 1846-1966 / Alan Govenar
  • Inscriptions of the self : reflections on tattooing and piercing in contemporary Euro-America / Susan Benson.