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.