Written on the body
Subtitle: the tattoo in European and American history
By: edited by Jane Caplan.
Contributors: Caplan, Jane.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N. J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Tattooing -- Europe -- History; Tattooing -- United States -- History; Tattooing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History; Tattooing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stigma and tattoo / C.P. Jones; title: The tattoo in the later Roman empire and beyond / Mark Gustafson; title: Insular Celtic tattooing: history, myth and metaphor / Charles W. MacQuarrie; title: Wearing the universe: symbolic markings in early modern England / Jennipher Allen Rosecrans; title: The Renaissance tattoo / Juliet Fleming; title: Curiously marked: tattooing and gender difference in eighteenth-century British perceptions of the South Pacific / Harriet Guest; title: Godna: inscribing Indian convicts in the nineteenth century / Clare Anderson; title: Skin deep devotions: religious tattoos and convict transportation to Australia / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Ian Duffield; title: Body commodification? Class and tattoos in Victorian Britain / James Bradley; title: 'National tattooing': traditions of tattooing in nineteenth-century Europe / Jane Caplan; title: Branding the other/tattooing the self: bodily inscription among convicts in Russia and the Soviet Union / Abby M. Schrader; title: On display: tattooed entertainers in America and Germany / Stephan; title: Oettermann; title: The changing image of tattooing in American culture, 1846-1966 / Alan Govenar; title: Inscriptions of the self: reflections on tattooing and piercing in contemporary Euro-America / Susan Benson.