Stigma : Marking Skin in the Early Modern World / edited by Katherine Dauge-Roth and Craig Koslofsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dauge-Roth, Katherine, editor.

Koslofsky, Craig, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on sensory history.

Perspectives on Sensory History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body marking--History.

Body marking.

Tatooing--History.

Tatooing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Marking Skin: A Cutaneous Collection

Part I. Marked encounters in America, Asia, and Africa

1. Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted: English Ideas of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy

2. Indigenous Taiwanese Skin Marking in Early Modern European and Chinese Eyes

3. Following the Trail of the Slave Trade: Branding, Skin, and Commodification

Part II. Marks of faith

4. Jerusalem Under the Skin: The History of Jerusalem Pilgrimage Tattoos

5. Stigmata and the Mind-Body Connection

6. The Invisible Mark: Representing Baptism in Early Modern French Dramaturgy

7. Rabies and Relics: Cutaneous Marks and Popular Healing in Early Modern Europe

Part III. Standing out: marks of honor, shame, and beauty

8. Skin Narratives: Speaking About Wounds and Scars in Shakespeares Coriolanus

9. Branding on the Face in Early Modern Europe

10. Mouches Volantes: The Enigma of Paste-On Beauty Marks in Seventeenth-Century France

Afterword: Cultural Inscriptions: Body Marking After 1800

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-271-09588-1

OCLC:

1432605296