Theearly 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 highlightingthe interwoven histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, wounds and scars, thisvolume 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.

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Information

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Year

2023

ISBN

9780271095875

Topic

History

Subtopic

European History

Index

History

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marking Skin: A Cutaneous Collection
Part I: Marked Encounters in America, Asia, and Africa
Part II: Marks of Faith
Part III: Standing Out: Marks of Honor, Shame, and Beauty
Afterword: Cultural Inscriptions: Body Marking After 1800
List of Contributors
Index