Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History

Abstract

Notes on the Editor and Contributors vii Introduction JANE CAPLAN xi 1 Stigma and Tattoo C. P. JONES 1 2 The Tattoo in the Later Roman Empire and Beyond MARK GUSTAFSON 17 3 Insular Celtic Tattooing: History, Myth and Metaphor CHARLES W. MACQUARRIE 32 4 Wearing the Universe: Symbolic Markings in Early Modern England JENNIPHER ALLEN ROSECRANS 46 5 The Renaissance Tattoo JULIET FLEMING 61 6 Curiously Marked: Tattooing and Gender Difference in Eighteenth-century British Perceptions of the South Pacific HARRIET GUEST 83 7 Godna: Inscribing Indian Convicts in the Nineteenth Century CLARE ANDERSON 102 8 Skin Deep Devotions: Religious Tattoos and Convict Transportation to Australia HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART AND IAN DUFFIELD 118 9 Body Commodification? Class and Tattoos in Victorian Britain JAMES BRADLEY 136 10 'National Tattooing': Traditions of Tattooing in Nineteenth-century Europe JANE CAPLAN 156 11 Branding the Other/Tattooing the Self: Bodily Inscription among Convicts in Russia and the Soviet Union ABBY M. SCHRADER 174 12 On Display: Tattooed Entertainers in America and Germany STEPHAN OETTERMANN 193 13 The Changing Image of Tattooing in American Culture, 1846-1966 ALAN GOVENAR 212 14 Inscriptions of the Self: Reflections on Tattooing and Piercing in Contemporary Euro-America SUSAN BENSON 234 References 255 Select Bibliography 302 Acknowledgements 306 Photographic Acknowledgements 307 Index 308