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Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin Juniper Ellis
Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin
Juniper Ellis
A book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in the works of nineteenth and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, and Albert Wendt. It shows how culture has been etched on the human form and on a body of literature.
304 pages, 24 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 3, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231143684 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 517 g |