Stigma: marking skin in the early modern world

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,...

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Corporate Author: Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata: Early Modern Techniques of Inscribing the Body and their Contemporary Relevance (Veranstaltung) Cambridge, Mass (Author)
Other Authors: Dauge-Roth, Katherine (Editor), Koslofsky, Craig 1963- (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press [2023]
Series:Perspectives on sensory history
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Item Description:Basiert auf der Konferenz "Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata : early modern techniques of inscribing the body and their contemporary relevance", 2016, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard University
Physical Description:xii, 282 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780271094427
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