NMC Library

Tattoo culture : theory and contemporary contexts /

Barron, Lee, 1970-

Tattoo culture : theory and contemporary contexts / Lee Barron. - xiv, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index.

Culture and theory -- From Ötzi to trash Polka: reading tattoos -- Celebrity skin: tattoos and popular culture -- Theorising ink: tattooing as semiotic communication and phenomenological expression -- Ethnographies of ink -- Tattoos as communicative practice and phenomenological expression: the tattooed perspective -- Needle work: tattoo artists and the studio space -- Tattoo conventions: Fandom and participatory art worlds -- Tattoo culture: transformation, being and time.

9781783488261 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781783488278 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781783488285 (electronic)

2017014965


Tattooing--Social aspects.

GT2345 / .B43 2017

391.6/5

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