7 Godna: Inscribing Indian Convicts in the Nineteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on the Editor and Contributors vii
4. Introduction xi
5. 1 Stigma and Tattoo 1
6. 2 The Tattoo in the Later Roman Empire and Beyond 17
7. 3 Insular Celtic Tattooing: History, Myth and Metaphor 32
8. 4 Wearing the Universe: Symbolic Markings in Early Modern England 46
9. 5 The Renaissance Tattoo 61
10. 6 Curiously Marked: Tattooing and Gender Difference in Eighteenth-century British Perceptions of the South Pacific 83
11. 7 Godna: Inscribing Indian Convicts in the Nineteenth Century 102
12. 8 Skin Deep Devotions: Religious Tattoos and Convict Transportation to Australia 118
13. 9 Body Commodification? Class and Tattoos in Victorian Britain 136
14. 10 'National Tattooing': Traditions of Tattooing in Nineteenth-century Europe 156
15. 11 Branding the Other/Tattooing the Self: Bodily Inscription among Convicts in Russia and the Soviet Union 174
16. 12 On Display: Tattooed Entertainers in America and Germany 193
17. 13 The Changing Image of Tattooing in American Culture, 1846-1966 212
18. 14 Inscriptions of the Self: Reflections on Tattooing and Piercing in Contemporary Euro-America 234
19. References 255
20. Select Bibliography 302
21. Acknowledgements 306
22. Photographic Acknowledgements 307
23. Index 308