بدن‌های قابل خواندن: نژاد، جرم و استعمار در جنوب آسیا

Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 8 1 Introduction: Textualizing the Indian Criminal Body......Page 12 2 Inscribing the Criminal Body: the Penal Tattoo......Page 26 3 ‘Surely there is more in this than mere ornament’: Ethnography, Surveillance and the Decorative Tattoo......Page 68 4 The Question of Convict Dress......Page 112 5 Voir/Savoir: Photographing, Measuring and Fingerprinting the Indian Criminal......Page 152 6 Emperors of the Lilliputians: Criminal Physiology and the Indian Social Body......Page 192 Bibliography......Page 220 B......Page 244 C......Page 245 D......Page 246 H......Page 247 M......Page 248 N......Page 249 P......Page 250 R......Page 253 T......Page 254 Z......Page 256

from The Late Eighteenth To Mid-twentieth Centuries, The British Incarcerated Tens Of Thousands Of Prisoners In South Asian Jails And Transported Tens Of Thousands Of Convicts To Penal Settlements Overseas In South East Asia, The Indian Ocean And The Andaman Islands. British Penal Administrators Created A Series Of Elaborate Mechanisms To Render Criminal Bodies Legible. They Introduced Visual Tags, For Example Tattoos, To Identify Prisoners And Convicts, Seeking To Mark And/or Read Them Both As Individuals And As Members Of Broader Penal Categories. legible Bodies Explores The Treatment Of These Native Criminals For The Whole Period Of Colonial Control. Through A Careful Reading Of Their Legible Bodies, The Author Uncovers New Material On Race And Ethnicity That Provides A Previously Unseen Perspective On Colonial History.

From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands. British penal administrators created a series of elaborate mechanisms to render "criminal bodies" legible. They introduced visual tags, for example tattoos, to identify prisoners and convicts, seeking to mark and/or read them both as individuals and as members of broader penal categories. __Legible Bodies__ explores the treatment of these "native criminals" for the whole period of colonial control. Through a careful reading of their "legible bodies," the author uncovers new material on race and ethnicity that provides a previously unseen perspective on colonial history. "From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands. Legible Bodies explores the treatment of these 'native criminals' and shreds light on a largely overlooked practice of empire." "British penal administrators created a series of elaborate mechanisms to render 'criminal bodies' legible. They introduced visual tags to identify prisoners and convicts, seeking to make and/or read them both as individuals and as members of broader penal categories. Scientists and ethnographers used prisonsers to explore biological and social manifestations of the Indian 'other'."--Jacket