Mairin Odle

Under the Skin

Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Studying the tattoos and scalping scars on early American bodies makes visible a world of signs: stories of alliance, alienation, conflict, and commodification. Body modifications in early America have often been dismissed as curiosities, yet the widely circulated stories and images of marked individuals-as this book demonstrates-were key to understanding the hopes and fears driving cultural boundary crossing in early America"--

Produktdetails

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781512823165
• ISBN-10: 1512823163
• Artikelnr.: 63625942

Autorenporträt

Mairin Odle

Inhaltsangabe

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