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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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