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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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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