Format:
xii, 282 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780271094434
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0271094435
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9780271094427
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0271094427
Series Statement:
Perspectives on sensory history
Content:
"Investigates the intersecting histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, and the wounds and scars borne by early modern men and women. Examines these forms of dermal marking as manifestations of a powerful and ubiquitous material practice"
Content:
The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas as they began to circulate and reshape one another in the early modern world. By highlighting the interwoven histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, wounds and scars, this volume shows that early modern markers of skin and readers of marked skin did not think about different kinds of cutaneous signs as separate from each other. On the contrary, Europeans described Indigenous tattooing in North America, Thailand, and the Philippines by referring their readers to the tattoos Christian pilgrims received in Jerusalem or Bethlehem. When explaining the devil's mark on witches, theologians claimed it was an inversion of holy marks such as those of baptism or divine stigmata. Stigma investigates how early modern people used permanent marks on skin to affirm traditional roles and beliefs, and how they hybridized and transformed skin marking to meet new economic and political demands.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Xiao Chen, Ana Fonseca Conboy, Peter Erickson, Claire Goldstein, Matthew S. Hopper, Katrina H. B. Keefer, Mordechay Lewy, Nicole Nyffenegger, Mairin Odle, and Allison Stedman
Note:
"The idea for this volume first emerged from an interdisciplinary seminar of "Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata: Early Modern Techniques of Inscribing the Body and Their Contemporary Relevance", organzid by Katherine Dauge-Roth and Peter S. Erickson at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, held at Harvard University." (Acknowledgements, Seite XI)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : marking skin : a cutaneous collection / Katherine Dauge-Roth and Craig Koslofsky -- "Pownced, pricked, or paynted" : English ideas of tattooing as indigenous literacy / Mairin Odle -- Indigenous Taiwanese skin marking in early modern European and Chinese eyes / Xiao Chen -- Following the trail of the slave trade : branding, skin, and commodification / Katrina H. B. Keefer and Matthew S. Hopper -- Jerusalem under the skin : the history of Jerusalem pilgrimage tattoos / Mordechay Lewy -- Stigmata and the mind-body connection / Allison Stedman -- The invisible mark : representing baptism in early modern French dramaturgy / Ana Fonseca Conboy -- Rabies and relics : cutaneous marks and popular healing in early modern Europe / Katherine Dauge-Roth -- Skin narratives : speaking about wounds and scars in Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Nicole Nyffenegger -- Branding on the face in early modern Europe / Craig Koslofsky -- Mouches volantes : the enigma of paste-on beauty marks in seventeenth-century France / Claire Goldstein -- Afterword : cultural inscriptions : body marking after 1800 / Peter Erickson.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Haut
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Markierung
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Stigmatisierung
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Tätowierung
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Geschichte 1500-1800
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Koslofsky, Craig 1963-
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