Written on the Body : : The Tattoo in European and American History / / ed. by Jane Caplan.
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 collection e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the Editor and Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Stigma and Tattoo
- 2 The Tattoo in the Later Roman Empire and Beyond
- 3 Insular Celtic Tattooing: History, Myth and Metaphor
- 4 Wearing the Universe: Symbolic Markings in Early Modern England
- 5 The Renaissance Tattoo
- 6 Curiously Marked: Tattooing and Gender Difference in Eighteenth-century British Perceptions of the South Pacific
- 7 Godna: Inscribing Indian Convicts in the Nineteenth Century
- 8 Skin Deep Devotions: Religious Tattoos and Convict Transportation to Australia
- 9 Body Commodification? Class and Tattoos in Victorian Britain
- 10 'National Tattooing': Traditions of Tattooing in Nineteenth-century Europe
- 11 Branding the Other/Tattooing the Self: Bodily Inscription among Convicts in Russia and the Soviet Union
- 12 On Display: Tattooed Entertainers in America and Germany
- 13 The Changing Image of Tattooing in American Culture, 1846-1966
- 14 Inscriptions of the Self: Reflections on Tattooing and Piercing in Contemporary Euro-America
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photographic Acknowledgements
- Index