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Written on the Body - the Tattoo in American and European History (Hardcover)
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Written on the Body - the Tattoo in American and European History (Hardcover)
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Written on the Body surveys the history of the tattoo in Europe and
North America from Antiquity to the present. While the subject of
tattooing has previously been approached from the viewpoints of
anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, this is the first
book to set the practice into a historical perspective. This is
partly because there was no obvious context for writing a serious
history of it prior to the emergence of scholarship on the cultural
history of the body. The tattoo emerges as a haunting presence on
Europe's margins, figuring as something alien and uncanny. It seems
to hover for much of its history in a space between the cosmetic
and the punitive, frequently indicative of and complicated by the
practice of penal violations of bodily integrity. It is this
fluidity of the tattoo's meaning, rather than its marginality, that
is the focus of Written on the Body.
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