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Legible bodies : race, criminality and colonialism in South Asia
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Legible bodies : race, criminality and colonialism in South Asia / Clare Anderson.
ISBN
1859738605
1859738605 (pbk.)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004.
Physical Description
viii, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 05, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.
Contents
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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