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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Odle, Mairin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
To 1799
Tattooing > United States > History > 18th century.
Scalping > United States > History > 18th century.
Tattooing > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Scalping > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Civilization.
Scalping.
Tattooing.
Tattooing > Social aspects.
United States > Civilization > To 1783.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Stories Written on the Body
  • 1 Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted: Colonial Interpretations, Indigenous Tattoos
  • 2 The "Ill Effects of It": Reading and Rewriting the Cross-Cultural Tattoo
  • 3 Pricing the Part: Economies of Violence and Stories of Scalps
  • 4 Playing Possum: Scalping Survivors and Embodied Memory
  • Epilogue: Narrative Legacies and Settler

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