Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia

Western imaginings about marked ‘primitive’ bodies have a long history, yet studies of these practices have remained largely a-historical. Drawing on recent scholarship addressing the history and cultural meanings of the corporeal surface of the Western body this paper presents a preliminary histori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haebich, Anna
Format: Journal Article
Published: Borderlands 2008
Online Access:http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no2_2008/haebich_marked.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47304