Under the Skin

Under the Skin

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

Odle, Mairin

University of Pennsylvania Press

11/2022

176

Dura

Inglês

9781512823165

15 a 20 dias

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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
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colonial history; Native American indigenous history; seventeenth eighteenth century; body modification; pain; identity; belonging; alliance; battle; violence; adoption; tattooing; scalping; settler; survivor; story; sixteenth century; race; war; ritual; cross cultural; bounties