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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Odle, Mairin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
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.
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