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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | America and the long 19th century ;
9 |
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