Introduction: Stories Written on the Body -- 1 Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted: Colonial Interpretations, Indigenous Tattoos -- 2 The "Ill Effects of It": Reading and Rewriting the Cross-Cultural Tattoo -- 3 Pricing the Part: Economies of Violence and Stories of Scalps -- 4 Playing Possum: Scalping Survivors and Embodied Memory -- Epilogue: Narrative Legacies and Settler
Summary
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 signs of alliance or signs of conflict, producing a complex bodily archive of cross-cultural entanglement
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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