History of tattooing

Body Art: From the Stone Age to the Electronic Age Body art is one of humanity’s oldest ways to express themselves, but throughout history individuals with body art have experienced persecution and ridicule. Tattooing went from being a way to signal out criminals and prostitutes, to being a brand new canvas for artists. Piercings in some ancient cultures showed class levels and riches, while today it means hippie or to the media, a slut. Times change, views change, people and cultures change…

others see it as beneficial, inspiring, and a need to maintain the histories of tattoos. I can understand that we all have different sentiments about tattoos because we all grew up in different households, received different perceptions and knowledge about cultures’ norms and values based on our belief systems. All above these shaped or nurtured us differently. Thus, on this researcher paper I am going to explore about the history of tattoos and why it is a dissension today. Also, what is a…

how intimate tattooing is. A life-long commitment to a piece of artwork that one will carry on one’s skin wherever they go requires careful consideration. Tattooing itself has been practiced for centuries all over the world, with the first known instance of tattooing dating back to 6000 BC on a Chinchorro mummy in Peru. Since then, the art of tattooing has spread throughout the rest of the world. In modern days, tattoos are extremely prevalent on all types of people. The art of tattooing goes…

Sacrificing certain things for a greater freedom: long hair, piercings, and tattoos to name a few. This is why many soldier having a desire for tattoos wait until their service or enlistment time frame has been served before being tattooed. An aspect of military culture is uniformity. It is impossible for the military to govern the type of tattoos individuals place on themselves. Tattoos depicting sexual provocative imagry or gang related symbols that can be hidden in a variety of different ways…

(North America and Asia) used, and how methods had varied among their different subsistences. Throughout this research project, I learned many things. For one, the way the Yuki, Chuckchee, and Iban all tattooed was pretty similar. Their reasons for tattooing differed a little, and I was surprised to learn the meanings behind the tattoos. Cultural Practice Yuki Britannica, the online encyclopedia, states that the Yuki people consist of four groups of North American Indians. Each of the four…

and Tattoos In the article On Teenagers and Tattoos, A. Martin, MD. explains some of the reasons why tattoos and piercings are seemingly gaining more popularity with urban youth. Martin MD makes the point that legislation to curtail professional tattooing of minors, teenagers have turned to homemade or what is referred to as “jailhouse” or “self-made” tattoos (Martin MD, 2012 pg. 320). It is alleged that teenagers may desire to obtain body decoration for a variety of reasons. Some benign reasons…

possibly know what they want on their bodies permanently. Also tattoos the end up being regrets are drunken tattoos. There have been so many cases of people who get tattoos under the influence. There isn’t any regulation that stops tattoo artist from tattooing someone even if they are drunk. Other tattoos that almost always end up being a regret are significant other tattoos. People have to keep in mind that even though today there are ways to remove tattoos it isn’t easy to do…

Experiencing a Tattoo “My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story”. (Depp) I have three tattoos, each of them have a different meaning: furthermore, each experience getting them is different. As I observed others receiving their tattoos I noticed they had other experiences that differed from mine. While some people may not like tattoos, my first tattoo had a lot of meaning to it, it helped me through tough times because every tattoo I get on my body will mean something to me, my…

Tattoos Are Art Imagine being a tattoo artist that put in hours of work into a design and then even more time tattooing that design for someone to say it’s not art? Infuriating right? Ink on your body to most older people is not considered art, but why? This is because they see it as ruining your body for the rest of your life, but who are they to tell you what’s right or wrong for yourself. There are different types of art in several different forms. Tattoos are considered art because they are…

Once upon a time, tattoo parlors were the domain of the docks, the back alleys of cities or down the block from a military base. Their proprietors were bikers, dockworkers and servicemen. But somewhere in the waning days of the 20th century, things changed and the tattoo became not only fashionable, but ubiquitous. You could say the tattoo managed to do something very few politicians ever hope to accomplish – transcend generational and culture lines. Today it seems you can’t watch a…