Legible bodies [electronic resource] : race, criminality and colonialism in South Asia / Clare Anderson.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford : New York, NY, USA : Berg, 2004.Description: viii, 245 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV7092 .A15 2004eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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