Reading beneath the Skin: Indigenous Tattooing in the Early Spanish Philippines, ca. 1520–1720.
This article explores the early modern encounter between Spanish colonizers and the Visayans, tattooed Indigenous people of the Philippines. Skin has commonly featured as a marker of human difference in studies of colonial interactions. By tracing how Spanish responses to tattooing were negotiated l...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 127; no. 3; pp. 1252 - 1288 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2022
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