An edition of Written on the Body
(2000)
Written on the body
the tattoo in European and American history
by Jane Caplan
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This text covers the history of the tattoo in Europe and North America. While the subject has been previously covered from viewpoints of anthroplogy, sociology, and cultural studies, this is the first from a historical perspective.
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Tattooing, History, Body marking, Social aspectsPlaces
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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History
2021, Princeton University Press
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0691238251 9780691238258
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Written on the body: the tattoo in European and American history
2000, Reaktion
in English
1861890621 9781861890627
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Written on the body: the tattoo in European and American history
2000, Princeton University Press
in English
0691057222 9780691057224
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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European And American History
May 31, 2000, Diane Pub Co
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in English
0756779340 9780756779344
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Written on the body: the tattoo in European and American history
2000, Reaktion
in English
1861890621 9781861890627
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Table of Contents
Stigma and tattoo / C.P. Jones
The tattoo in the later Roman empire and beyond / Mark Gustafson
Insular Celtic tattooing: history, myth and metaphor / Charles W. MacQuarrie
Wearing the universe: symbolic markings in early modern England / Jennipher Allen Rosecrans
The Renaissance tattoo / Juliet Fleming
Curiously marked: tattooing and gender difference in eighteenth-century British perceptions of the South Pacific / Harriet Guest
Godna: inscribing Indian convicts in the nineteenth century / Clare Anderson
Skin deep devotions: religious tattoos and convict transportation to Australia / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Ian Duffield
Body commodification? Class and tattoos in Victorian Britain / James Bradley
'National tattooing': traditions of tattooing in nineteenth-century Europe / Jane Caplan
Branding the other/tattooing the self: bodily inscription among convicts in Russia and the Soviet Union / Abby M. Schrader
On display: tattooed entertainers in America and Germany / Stephan
Oettermann
The changing image of tattooing in American culture, 1846-1966 / Alan Govenar
Inscriptions of the self: reflections on tattooing and piercing in contemporary Euro-America / Susan Benson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-305) and index.
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