For millennia, peoples around the world have tattooed human skin to communicate various
ontological, psychosocial, and sociocultural concepts encompassing beauty, cultural …

For thousands of years, peoples around the world have practiced tattooing because of its
perceived efficacy as a medicinal therapy. As a form of medical treatment, tattoo thus …

This essay describes the potential for using ethnographic evidence and mummified tattooed
skin to reflect on past therapeutic tattoo practice in the Arctic. It also considers the ways in …

Reading in the Philippines is a process whereby the body, mind and spirit are engaged.
Even though Filipinos are predominantly Catholic, many believe that creative energy, in the …

Instructional materials that integrate students' cultures make teaching and learning relevant
to students. However, there is a lack of culture-based and research-based teaching …

Tattoos have been reported from human remains representing a wide range of cultures and
time periods. While the practice of tattooing can be studied using a variety of types of …

Tattooing, in terms of both practice and tattoo design, has become a significant component
of popular global culture and the focus of anthropological studies worldwide (for example …

This chapter examines the cultural history of Naga tattoo through the voices of Naga elders,
a contemporary Naga tattoo artist, Naga writers, among others. One hundred years ago …

What practices and techniques contribute to the “recontextualization” of an extinct traditional
tattoo tradition in contemporary practice? Through what channels do today's practitioners …

For millennia tattooing practices, the embodied process of inserting indelible pigments
beneath the skin, have been commonplace among many Indigenous peoples. As a visual …