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Written on the body : the tattoo in European and American history / edited by Jane Caplan.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.Description: xxiii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691057222
  • 0691057230
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.6/5/094 21
LOC classification:
  • GN419.3 .W75 2000
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GN419.3 .W75 2000 1 Available 33039001334050

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-305) and index.

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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