Undisciplined Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both con...
Format: | eBook |
---|---|
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York
New York University Press
2016
|
Series: | America and the Long 19th Century
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |