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Tattoo Culture - Theory and Contemporary Contexts (Hardcover)
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Tattoo Culture - Theory and Contemporary Contexts (Hardcover)
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Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV
series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their
interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the
social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo
designs. Whereas in the not-to-distant past tattoos were commonly
culturally perceived to represent an outward sign of social
non-conformity or even deviance, tattoos now increasingly transcend
class, gender, and age boundaries and arguably are now more
culturally acceptable than they have ever been. But why is this the
case, and why do so many social actors elect to wear tattoos?
Tattoo Culture explores these questions from historical, cultural
and media perspectives, but also from the heart of the culture
itself, from the dynamics of the tattoo studio, the work of the
artist and the world of the tattoo convention, to the perspective
of the social actors who bear designs to investigate the meanings
which lie being the images. It critically examines the ways in
which tattoos alter social actors' sense of being and their
relationship with time in the semiotic ways with which they
communicate, to themselves or to the wider world, key elements of
their bodily and personal identity and sense of being.
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