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"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...

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Published in:American Historical Review Vol. 123; no. 1; pp. 86 - 124
Main Author: JINKS, REBECCA
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Feb2018
Subjects:
Humanitarianism
League of Nations
Armenian genocide, 1915-1923
Tattooing > Social aspects
Humanitarian assistance
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