Spiritual Tattoo
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding, and Implants
Publisher: Frog, Ltd.; Distributed by North Atlantic Books
Published: March 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781583941171
Subjects: Anthropology; Tattooing; Popular Culture - General; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Religious aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; Beauty & Grooming - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Body marking; Body, Human; Scarification (Body marking)
First sentence: Body modifications through mutilation, scarification, and its corollary tattooing-the insertion of pigment into abraded, punctured, or incised skin-have a long history and a much longer prehistory.
Description: "Reviews body modifications from prehistoric times to present, outlining processes and procedures and discussing social and psychological motives"--Provided by publisher.