Deeper than the Surface: Analyzing Tattoos in a Modernized World
| dc.contributor.author | Todd, Katy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-05T20:50:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-04-05T20:50:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | Recommended Citation: Todd, Katy. “Deeper than the Surface: Analyzing Tattoos in a Modernized World.” Royal Road, 2018. https://doi.org/10.48497/293T-MJ35. | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the late 1990s, anthropologist William Peace entered the American Museum of Natural History’s special exhibit, Body Art: Marks of Identity, a display he later described as prompting a “measured respect for body art [as well as] great skepticism” (589). The exhibit displayed the many ways that a variety of cultures have practiced body art and body modifications overthe past several centuries. Peace showed particular interest in the cultural phenomenon of tattooing, and how the practice was (and still remains) synonymous with cultural symbolism. In other words, it served as a way to visually transcribe certain aspects of human existence, as well as an impression of culture shared among generations. (589, 591). By definition, the word tattoo is indicative of “permanent marks or designs inserted on the skin by puncturing it and inserting pigment or pigments” (“Tattoo”); however, Peace describes the age-old art form much differently. According to Peace, body art, particularly tattoos, are a worldwide medium of expression, and as the name of the exhibit suggests, tattoos inherently are marks of human identity (589, 593). Though tattoos themselves are permanent, the role these century-old markings play in shaping human identity is, somewhat ironically, ever-changing. In fact, it has even changed in just the two decades following Peace’s publication. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Todd, Katy. “Deeper than the Surface: Analyzing Tattoos in a Modernized World.” Royal Road, 2018. https://doi.org/10.48497/293T-MJ35. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.48497/293t-mj35 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/408 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English and Writing, The University of Tampa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tattoos | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tattooing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twenty-first century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Expression (Philosophy) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Anima | en_US |
| dc.subject | Identity | en_US |
| dc.title | Deeper than the Surface: Analyzing Tattoos in a Modernized World | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
Files
Original bundle
1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
- Name:
- Todd_RoyalRoad_2_2018_A.pdf
- Size:
- 316.14 KB
- Format:
- Adobe Portable Document Format
- Description:
- Article