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

by Mairin Odle

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.

Indigenous body modification practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512823163
• ISBN13: 9781512823165
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"