Bodies of inscription : a cultural history of the modern tattoo community / Margo DeMello.

  • DeMello, Margo.
Date:
2000
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.

Physical description

xiv, 222 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.

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.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TA.CZ
    Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0822324679
  • 9780822324676
  • 0822324326
  • 9780822324324