Clare Anderson, Legible bodies. Race, criminality and colonialism in South Asia
Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia is Clare Anderson’s most recent foray into the history of punishment in colonial South Asia. In this compact but informative book, she takes up the relationship between discourses of race and criminality on the one hand, and embodied p...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia is Clare Anderson’s most recent foray into the history of punishment in colonial South Asia. In this compact but informative book, she takes up the relationship between discourses of race and criminality on the one hand, and embodied practices on the other. Her particular concern is with colonial inscriptions, descriptions and readings of the bodies of convicts, through tattooing, dress, haircuts, measurements, photography, and ... |
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