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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| description | 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 historical analysis of the remaking of Indigenous corporeal surfaces and subjectivities under colonialism in Australia as part of the nineteenth century ‘civilising project’. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-473042017-01-30T15:32:28Z Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia Haebich, Anna 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 historical analysis of the remaking of Indigenous corporeal surfaces and subjectivities under colonialism in Australia as part of the nineteenth century ‘civilising project’. 2008 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47304 http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no2_2008/haebich_marked.htm Borderlands fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Haebich, Anna Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia |
| title | Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia |
| title_full | Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia |
| title_short | Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia |
| title_sort | marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial australia |
| url | http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no2_2008/haebich_marked.htm http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47304 |