TY - BOOK AU - Barron,Lee TI - Tattoo culture: theory and contemporary contexts SN - 9781783488261 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - GT2345 .B43 2017 U1 - 391.6/5 23 PY - 2017///] CY - London, New York PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Tattooing KW - Social aspects N1 - 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 ER -