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Bodies of inscription : a cultural history of the modern tattoo community / Margo DeMello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeMello, Margo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tattooing--United States.
- Tattooing.
- Tattooing--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Finding community: shops, conventions, magazines, and cyberspace
- Cultural roots: the history of tattooing in the West
- Appropriation and transformation: the origins of the renaissance
- Discourse and differentiation: media representation and tattoo organizations
- Creation of meaning I: the new text
- Creation of meaning II: the tattoo narratives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-217) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822396147
- 0822396149
- OCLC:
- 1139646989
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