The Philosophy of Tattoos

By: John Miller

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Hardcover | 23 June 2021

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112 Pages

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History, it seems, is seldom written by the tattooed

Tattoos were once rare and powerful. Today, tattooing is everywhere. As social media establishes tattoos in the mainstream, tattooing is becoming increasingly `extreme', reclaiming body art as a symbol of deviance

John Miller -- `a conventionally dressed middle-aged academic with a full bodysuit' -- reminds us to look beyond the superficial to the beauty and force of tattooing ritual. Despite its ubiquity, the act of tattooing cannot help but retain a kind of magic. Tattoos are integral to cultures from Polynesia, to the Amazon, to the Arctic; they decorated supreme beings and express resilience against colonial oppression. Indigenous tattooing has not only survived -- it is being reborn across the world

Beneath all of this is the simple, innate desire to mark our skin. This book asks what the history of tattooing might tell us about the fundamental question: how does our skin make us who we are?

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