Introduction: Marking Skin: A Cutaneous Collection

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Marking Skin: A Cutaneous Collection 1
6. Part I. Marked encounters in America, Asia, and Africa
7. 1. “Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted”: English Ideas of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy 19
8. 2. Indigenous Taiwanese Skin Marking in Early Modern European and Chinese Eyes 37
9. 3. Following the Trail of the Slave Trade: Branding, Skin, and Commodification 58
10. Part II. Marks of faith
11. 4. Jerusalem Under the Skin: The History of Jerusalem Pilgrimage Tattoos 85
12. 5. Stigmata and the Mind-Body Connection 124
13. 6. The Invisible Mark: Representing Baptism in Early Modern French Dramaturgy 143
14. 7. Rabies and Relics: Cutaneous Marks and Popular Healing in Early Modern Europe 163
15. Part III. Standing out: marks of honor, shame, and beauty
16. 8. Skin Narratives: Speaking About Wounds and Scars in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus 199
17. 9. Branding on the Face in Early Modern Europe 220
18. 10. Mouches Volantes: The Enigma of Paste-On Beauty Marks in Seventeenth-Century France 238
19. Afterword: Cultural Inscriptions: Body Marking After 1800 257
20. List of Contributors 269
21. Index 273