"Marks Hard to Erase": The Troubled Reclamation of "Absorbed" Armenian Women, 1919-1927.
This article explores how American and European humanitarian workers and organizations treated, and represented, a group of Armenian women who were among those "absorbed" into Turkish, Kurdish, and Bedouin households during the genocide of 1915. Taken into Bedouin households, they were tattooed on t...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 123; no. 1; pp. 86 - 124 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2018
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