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

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Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America - Odle, Mairin
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"Studying the tattoos and scalping scars on early American bodies makes visible a world of signs: stories of alliance, alienation, conflict, and commodification. Body modifications in early America have often been dismissed as curiosities, yet the widely circulated stories and images of marked individuals-as this book demonstrates-were key to understanding the hopes and fears driving cultural boundary crossing in early America"--

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Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America 2022, University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-13: 9781512823165

Hardcover