Overview: Argues that only through inter-disciplinary approach can the phenomena of tattooing be understood.Examines tattooing practices and literary examples through a multi-disciplinary and transcultural lens.The essays collected in .Tattooed Bodies. draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the vol
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