Legible bodies race, criminality and colonialism in South Asia
Introduction: textualizing the Indian criminal body -- Inscribing the criminal body: the penal tattoo -- 'Surely there is more in this than mere ornament': ethnography, surveillance, and the decorative tattoo -- The question of convict dress -- Voir/savoir: photographing, measuring and fin...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
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2004
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Online Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Verlagsangaben Autorenbiografie |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: textualizing the Indian criminal body -- Inscribing the criminal body: the penal tattoo -- 'Surely there is more in this than mere ornament': ethnography, surveillance, and the decorative tattoo -- The question of convict dress -- Voir/savoir: photographing, measuring and fingerprinting the Indian criminal -- Emperors of the Lilliputians: criminal physiology and the Indian social body |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 245 S. Ill. 23cm |
| ISBN: | 1859738559 1-85973-855-9 1859738605 1-85973-860-5 |