Tattoos In Modern Society
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Tattoos In Modern Society
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Author : Janey Levy
language : en
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Release Date : 2009
Tattoos In Modern Society written by Janey Levy and has been published by Rosen Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the history of tattooing, how the art entered mainstream society, reasons for getting tattoos, styles and designs, and famous tattoo artists.
Tattoos In Modern Society
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Author : Janey Levy
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2008-08-15
Tattoos In Modern Society written by Janey Levy and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title looks at tattooing today, and how this once traditional/cultural practice has become mainstream, both in the United States and worldwide.
Tattoos
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Author : Geoffrey L. Domowicz
language : en
Publisher: E-Booktime Llc
Release Date : 2007
Tattoos written by Geoffrey L. Domowicz and has been published by E-Booktime Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Why is our culture so fascinated with tattoos? Is this just a trend or a true reflection of our modern culture? The reasons why people acquire tattoos in our modern society today are vast and varied. Often people obtain a tattoo for very personal reasons. This text captures the true stories of why eighty-one people decided to get a tattoo. Through personal interviews conducted by the author, the book explains the meanings behind their tattoos and the decisions leading to the placement of that tattoo on their body in their own words.
Tattooing In Contemporary Society
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Author : Michael Rees
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Tattooing In Contemporary Society written by Michael Rees and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Social Science categories.
Tattooing has become an increasingly popular phenomenon in the twenty first century, with growing numbers of sports stars and celebrities choosing to go ‘under the needle’ and tattooing regularly featuring in mainstream media. Based on interviews and participant observation at tattoo studios and tattoo conventions, this book investigates the reasons why so many people choose this form of body modification among all the options available to construct their identity. Drawing on Norbert Elias’ figurational sociology, the author considers the importance of the desire to create community with others and to claim an authentic identity among the various reasons for choosing to be tattooed. A study of the connection between body and identity, richly illustrated with empirical material, this book will appeal to sociologists and scholars of cultural studies.
Tatoos Fashion Trend Vs Social Symbol Of Communication
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Author : Kerstin Müller
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2004-10-09
Tatoos Fashion Trend Vs Social Symbol Of Communication written by Kerstin Müller and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Bayreuth (Faculty for Literature Science and Linguistics), course: HS Dress Codes - Reading Fashion Cultures, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1997, the Hartford Courant published the research results of the American Economic Information Service concerning those economic branches which have shown the highest rates of expansion in 1996. Among expected high-tech branches such as the Internet, for example, one branch, which had up to that point not even been regarded as an economic branch, appeared among first six ranks: the tattoo- ind ustry (Stirn 285). This example clearly shows that tattooing has intensely increased in popularity towards the end of the 20 th century. Tattooing is no longer a rarity, but is present in everyday life. Tattoos can be detected on various kinds of parts on the human body, and the motives appear in uncountable varieties of shape and design, with colours ranging from plain black to gaudy. Tattoos are especially popular among younger people between the age of 15 and 25. In general, the numbers range from seven to twenty million tattooed individuals for the United States, and state about two million for Germany (Stirn 285). These numbers are generally only rough estimations, because there is no reliable method of counting, and the results mainly rely upon accounts of recently developing tattoo associations. The focus of this paper shall lie on the function of the tattoo, namely whether or not the tattoo is just an ephemeral fashion trend or a lasting constituent of the human culture. It shall be analysed in what way tattooing can be regarded as fashion and to what degree it can be considered to be a social symbol in human interaction. First, a general history of tattooing shall be given, because the development is important for the comparison. In order to avoid obscurities concerning the term tattoo or tattooing a short definition shall be given here. According to Finke, several authors differ in their definition of tattoos. Some sources use tattooing as a general topic including all kinds of body modification, such as branding, scarification and body painting (Finke 15-17). In the course of this paper, the term tattoo shall only be used to describe the pemanent embedding of pigments into the skin, excluding scarification, body painting and branding. a The given definition excludes all other forms of body alteration but raises the need to differentiate further. There are tattoos which have not been obtained voluntarily, so-called compulsive tattoos which have been put on prisoners or soldiers throughout history. [...]
Tattooed Bodies
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Author : James Martell
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-20
Tattooed Bodies written by James Martell and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-20 with Social Science categories.
The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the volume reflects the sheer diversity of meanings attributed to tattoos throughout history and across cultures. Essays explore conceptualizations of tattoos and tattooing in Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy, while utilizing theoretical perspectives to interpret tattoos in literary works by Melville, Beckett, Kafka, Genet, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others. Tattooed Bodies prompts readers to explore a few significant questions: Are tattoos unique phenomena or an art medium in need of special theoretical exploration? If so, what conceptual paradigms and theories might best shape our understanding of tattoos and their complex ubiquity in world cultures and histories?
Customizing The Body
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Author : Clinton Sanders
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2008
Customizing The Body written by Clinton Sanders and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1989, this ground-breaking ethnographic exploration of tattooing—and the art world surrounding it—covers the history, anthropology and sociology of body modification practices; the occupational experience of the tattooist; the process and social consequences of becoming a tattooed person; and the prospects of "serious" tattooing becoming an accepted art form. Curiously, despite the greater prevalence of tattoos and body modification in today’s society, there is still a stigma of deviance associated with people who get or ink tattoos. Retaining the core of the original book, this revised and expanded edition offers a new preface by the author and a new chapter focusing on the changes that have occurred in the tattoo world. A section on the new scholarly literature that has emerged, as well as the new modes of body modification that have come into vogue are included along with a new gallery of photographs that shows some splendid examples of contemporary tattoo art. A directory of artists' websites invites readers to discover the range of work being done around the world—from “suits” (full body tattoos) to skulls.
Tattooing The World
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Author : Juniper Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-03
Tattooing The World written by Juniper Ellis and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-03 with Art categories.
In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these markings singled him out as a freak. His tattoos frightened women and children, and ministers warned their congregations that viewing O'Connell's markings would cause the ink to transfer to the skin of their unborn children. In many ways, O'Connell's story exemplifies the unique history of the modern tattoo, which began in the Pacific and then spread throughout the world. No matter what form it has taken, the tattoo has always embodied social standing, aesthetics, ethics, culture, gender, and sexuality. Tattoos are personal and corporate, private and public. They mark the profane and the sacred, the extravagant and the essential, the playful and the political. From the Pacific islands to the world at large, tattoos are a symbolic and often provocative form of expression and communication. Tattooing the World is the first book on tattoo literature and culture. Juniper Ellis traces the origins and significance of modern tattoo in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, Albert Wendt, and Sia Figiel. Traditional Pacific tattoo patterns are formed using an array of well-defined motifs. They place the individual in a particular community and often convey genealogy and ideas of the sacred. However, outside of the Pacific, those who wear and view tattoos determine their meaning and interpret their design differently. Reading indigenous historiography alongside Western travelogue and other writings, Ellis paints a surprising portrait of how culture has been etched both on the human form and on a body of literature.
Tattoo
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Author : Nicholas Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2005-04-29
Tattoo written by Nicholas Thomas and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-29 with Art categories.
The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook’s voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, New Zealand and Polynesia. In recent years these early contacts have been revived, as native tattooists from Oceania have begun tattooing non-Polynesians in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Tattoo is both a fascinating book about these early Oceanic–European exchanges, that also documents developments up to the present day, and the first to look at the history of tattooing in Oceania itself. Documenting these complex cultural interactions in the first part of the book, the authors move from issues of encounter, representation and exchange to the interventions of missionaries and the colonial state in local tattoo practices. Highly illustrated with many previously unseen images, for example the original voyage sketches of the first Russian circumnavigation of 1803–6, this is a fascinating account of early tattooing and cultural exchange in Oceania, and will appeal to the wide audience interested in the history of tattooing.
Inked Tattoos And Body Art Around The World 2 Volumes
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Author : Margo DeMello
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-05-30
Inked Tattoos And Body Art Around The World 2 Volumes written by Margo DeMello and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-30 with Social Science categories.
In recent decades, tattoos have gone from being a subculture curiosity in Western culture to mainstream and commonplace. This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. In the 1960s, tattooing was illegal in many parts of the United States. Today, tattooing is fully ingrained in mainstream culture and is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry. This exhaustive work contains approximately 400 entries on tattooing, providing historical information that enables readers to fully understand the methods employed, the meanings of, and the motivations behind tattooing—one of the most ancient ways humans mark themselves. The encyclopedia covers all important aspects of the topic of tattooing: the major types of tattooing, the cultural groups associated with tattooing, the regions of the world where tattooing has been performed, the origins of modern tattooing in prehistory, and the meaning of each society's use of tattoos. Major historical and contemporary figures associated with tattooing—including tattooists, tattooed people, and tattoo promoters—receive due attention for their contributions. The entries and sidebars also address the sociological movements involved with tattooing; the organizations; the media dedicated to tattooing, such as television shows, movies, magazines, websites, and books; and the popular conventions, carnivals, and fairs that have showcased tattooing.