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- Book Title
- Bodies of Inscription : A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo C
- ISBN
- 9780822324676
- Subject Area
- Art, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Bodies of Inscription : a Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 0.3 in
- Subject
- BODYART & Tattooing, General, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
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- 0.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822324679
ISBN-13
9780822324676
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1723321
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Bodies of Inscription : a Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
Language
English
Subject
BODYART & Tattooing, General, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
0.3 in
Item Width
0.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-029368
Reviews
"The histories of tattoo traditions presented in this book are fascinating and rich. DeMello has many insights into tattoos' complexity of meaning, brought out in precise ethnographic and historical fashion."-Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America, "The histories of tattoo traditions presented in this book are fascinating and rich. DeMello has many insights into tattoos' complexity of meaning, brought out in precise ethnographic and historical fashion."--Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America, “The histories of tattoo traditions presented in this book are fascinating and rich. DeMello has many insights into tattoos’ complexity of meaning, brought out in precise ethnographic and historical fashion.�-Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other� America, "A respectful look at an aspect of pop culture not normally treated in such un-sensational terms." Kirkus Review "Although academic, this book has much to recommend it for general collections . . . DeMello's major interest is in describing the new community of tattooed people, both men and women, for whom new meanings are being forged from the meeting of skin and ink." Booklist "DeMello presents an anthropological study of tattooing and tattoo communities in North America. Both a researcher and a "tattooed person" who is married to a tattooist, she describes the rigid hierarchies within tattoo communities and engages in a broader analysis of tattoos as socio-economic indicators. . . An interesting, authentic account of tattoo communities." Library Journal "A fascinating book bursting with penetrating description. DeMello makes a very useful contribution to the literature on these increasingly salient voluntary communities of passion, interest, and identity." Gayle Rubin "The histories of tattoo traditions presented in this book are fascinating and rich. DeMello has many insights into tattoos' complexity of meaning, brought out in precise ethnographic and historical fashion."--Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America, "A fascinating book bursting with penetrating description. DeMello makes a very useful contribution to the literature on these increasingly salient voluntary communities of passion, interest, and identity."--Gayle Rubin, "A fascinating book bursting with penetrating description. DeMello makes a very useful contribution to the literature on these increasingly salient voluntary communities of passion, interest, and identity."-Gayle Rubin
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
391
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Finding Community Shops, Conventions, Magazines, and Cyberspace 2. Cultural Roots The History of Tattooing in the West 3. Appropriation and Transformation The Origins of the Renaissance 4. Discourse and Differentiation Media Representation and Tattoo Organizations 5. The Creation of Meaning I The New Text 6. The Creation of Meaning II The Tattoo Narratives Conclusion: The Future of a Movement Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle-class consumption. She shows how a completely new set of meanings derived primarily from non-Western cultures has been created to give tattoos an exotic, primitive flavor. Community publications, tattoo conventions, articles in popular magazines, and DeMello's numerous interviews illustrate the interplay between class, culture, and history that orchestrated a shift from traditional Americana and biker tattoos to new forms using Celtic, tribal, and Japanese images. DeMello's extensive interviews reveal the divergent yet overlapping communities formed by this class-based, American-style repackaging of the tattoo. After describing how the tattoo has moved from a mark of patriotism or rebellion to a symbol of exploration and status, the author returns to the predominantly middle-class movement that celebrates its skin art as spiritual, poetic, and self-empowering. Recognizing that the term "community" cannot capture the variations and class conflict that continue to thrive within the larger tattoo culture, DeMello finds in the discourse of tattooed people and their artists a new and particular sense of community and explores the unexpected relationship between this discourse and that of other social movements. This ethnography of tattooing in America makes a substantive contribution to the history of tattooing in addition to relating how communities form around particular traditions and how the traditions themselves change with the introduction of new participants. Bodies of Inscription will have broad appeal and will be enjoyed by readers interested in cultural studies, American studies, sociology, popular culture, and body art., An ethnography of the tattoo community, tracing the practice's transformation from a mostly male, working-class phenomenon to one adapted and propagated by a more middle-class movement in the period from the 1970s to now
LC Classification Number
GT2346.U6D45 2000
Copyright Date
2004
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