Tattooing
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Six Essential Things Every Tattoo Studio Owner Should Know
Owning a tattoo studio is a blend of passion and business savvy. By mastering essential elements like branding, safety, and…
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Tattooing the Body, the Marking of a Culture
Academics involved in this research have referred to colleagues’ attitudes about research on tattooing as a deviant interest in deviance
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The Tattoo and Permanence in Body Modification
In this article, we investigate permanence through exploring tattoo consumption in terms of the social-historical context of being tattooed
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Tattooing, Tattoo Collectors and Tattooists as Deviants
This article looks at two groups within the most elite realm of tattooing, tattoo collectors and tattooists, and identifies how…
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Body Modifications: Cultural Construction of the Inscribed
Inscriptions on the body, especially tattoo, scarification, and body paint, have been part of ethnographic literature since before the birth…
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Neo-Victorian Tattooing in a Most Sincere Fashion, Darker and Richer
As the popularity of Victorian iconographies grew, it is unsurprising that the trend would be reflected in tattoo habits, and…
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Stratification: Body Modifications in Modern Society
It is estimated that twenty-four percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 years-old have tattoos, while fourteen…
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From Anti-Social Tattoos to Self-Adornment Deviances
Tattooing was once considered a deviant form of self-expression, and has now become a popular form of displaying one’s individuality…
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Is Inscribing the Body a Modern Anthropological Attraction?
From anthropological curiosity to fairground attraction, sub-cultural marking to a fashion statement, tattoos have been around for many centuries
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Ancient Celtic Tattoo Renaissance in Contemporary Ink
The practice of permanently decorating the human skin is an ancient and widespread one, and evidence for it survives from…
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Archaeologists unearth 3,000-year-old Obsidian tattoo
Australian archaeologists have examined prehistoric obsidian tools from the Nanngu site in the Solomon Islands and have determined they may…
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The Beauty in the Abstraction of Blackwork Tattoos
This article discusses society’s taboo and discrimination against body modification such as blackwood tattoos, their meanings and sociological impact as…
