Unique in scope and content, this methods-based text draws on the process of creating a digital archive of commemorative tattoos to examine the production and mobilization of knowledge across communities, disciplines, and space. Deborah Davidson's multidisciplinary collection addresses the cultural history of tattooing and the social meanings and implications of commemorative tattoos-tattoos that hold significant value for their bearer.
A practical resource for those undertaking archival research or collecting and sharing information across disciplines, this text acts as a template for building connections between academic and non-academic communities. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, The Tattoo Project offers critical insights and tools for courses focused on research methodologies and digital humanities, and provides innovative content for those studying the body, visual culture, and commemoration.
Features
highlights several case studies and personal narratives to contextualize theoretical and methodological approaches
includes photographs of archival participants
features accompanying poetry by award-winning poet Priscila Uppal
The Tattoo Project digital archive provides additional supplementary materials including photos, videos, and narratives
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"The Tattoo Project imaginatively blurs the lines between academic research and embodied narratives, scholarly knowledge and lived experiences. Methodologically ambitious, The Tattoo Project shows the multi-layered meanings behind commemorative tattoos, giving voice and space to the people who embody them. It also challenges us to re-think collaboration and community through the creation of an open digital archive that extends into the public sphere, and how the tattooed body is an inimitable archive in and of itself." - Mary Kosut, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College, SUNY
"As a unique form of human expression, tattooing transmits a vast body of information about who we are, where we come from, our desires and fears, and who we aspire to be. It offers one of the most powerful biographical, artistic, and intellectual statements on cultural diversity, visual communication, and commemorative agency. The authors of The Tattoo Project bring these profound perceptions to life, generating a timely interdisciplinary study that provides critical new understandings of body-marking and its role in self-making." - Lars Krutak, Tattoo Anthropologist, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
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978-1-55130-945-3 (9781551309453)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Deborah Davidson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her work focuses on wellbeing and social support, grief and bereavement, and life course.
Chapter 1: Introducing The Tattoo Project, Deborah Davidson
Section I. History, Culture, And Approach: An Overview
Chapter 2: Memories on the Skin: A Brief Cultural History of Tattooing, Margo DeMello
Chapter 3: Commemorative Tattoos as Visual-Material Media, Sara Martel
Chapter 4: Between the Inside and the Outside: Commemorative Tattoos and the Externalization of Loss or Trauma, Andreas Kitzmann
Chapter 5: Creative Methodologies, Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson
Chapter 6: Tattooing as Auto/Biographical Method and Practice, Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson
Chapter 7: Visual Research Methods: Memorial Tattoos as Memory-Realization, Deborah Davidson and Angelina Duhig
Chapter 8: Inscribing Memory as a Social Process: The Tattoo Artist-Client Relationship, Arthur McLuhan, with Wayne Galbraith
Section II. Written In The Flesh
Poem. Not a Cliche, Priscila Uppal
Photos
Section III. Case Studies And Personal Narratives
Chapter 9: ""Physical Words"": Scars, Tattoos, and Embodied Mourning, Kay Inckle
Chapter 10: Enshrined in Flesh: Tattoos and Contemporary Women's Spirituality, Gina Snooks
Chapter 11: Memorial Tattoos as Connection, Andrea Warnick and Lysa Toye
Chapter 12: ""Ingulule Ayidli Ngamabala"": A Reflection on the Spotted Soloist, Siphiwe Ignatius Dube
Chapter 13: I Am, Stephanie Pangowish
Chapter 14: Tattoo Memoir, Dave Mazierski
Chapter 15: Why I Get Tattoos: A Personal Perspective on Tattoos and Commemoration, Craig Roxborough
Section IV. The Tattoo Project: A Community Under Construction
Chapter 16: What Is an Archive? Creators, Functions, and Value in Archival Practice, Lisa Darms
Chapter 17: Public Sociology and Digital Culture, Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher J. Schneider
Chapter 18: Technology Design to Support Commemorative Tattoo Practice, Melanie Baljko
Chapter 19: The Coming Together of a Community of Practice: Commemorative Tattoos as Visual Culture for Community Engagement and Identity Formation, Anabel Quan-Haase
Chapter 20: Knowledge Mobilization: Engaging Beyond the Academy Walls, Krista Jensen
Reflection, Deborah Davidson
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