The author shows how tattooing changed from its working class roots to wider acceptance, "from traditional Americana and biker tattoos to new forms using Celtic, tribal, and Japanese images," and explores unexpected connections with other social movements.--Cover.
The author shows how tattooing changed from its working class roots to wider acceptance, "from traditional Americana and biker tattoos to new forms using Celtic, tribal, and Japanese images," and explores unexpected connections with other social movements.--Cover.
"Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyzes and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporar…
Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyzes and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporary…
"Illustrated profiles of 20 tattooists from around the world"--Provided by publisher"--
"What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and l…
