Tattooed lives: the indelible experience of meaning and identity in body art
Journal: Memorial University Research Repository (Memorial University)
Year: 2018

This dissertation explores the increasingly popular practice of tattooing from the&#13;\nperspective of tattoo enthusiasts and tattoo artists. While the topic of tattoos and&#13;\ntattooing have been researched by sociologists and cultural theorists in the past,&#13;\nthis treatment of the subject uniquely combines the perspectives of symbolic&#13;\ninteractionism, social semiotics, and Bauman’s ideas about liquid modernity, to&#13;\nhelp understand the meaning-making semiotic potential of tatto