Details
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Title
Spiritual Tattoo : A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding, and Implants
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Author
Rush, John
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Binding
Paperback
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Edition
Third Impression
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Condition
Used - Very Good
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Pages
256
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA
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Date
March 17, 2005
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Illustrated
Yes
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Features
Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
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Bookseller's Inventory #
17504116-6
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ISBN
9781583941171 / 1583941177
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Weight
1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
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Dimensions
9.34 x 7.01 x 0.64 in (23.72 x 17.81 x 1.63 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Tattooing, Body marking
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2004025244
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Dewey Decimal Code
391.65
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From the publisher
John A. Rush, Ph.D., N.D., is a Professor of Anthropology at Sierra College, Rocklin, California, teaching Physical Anthropology and Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion. Dr. Rush's publications include Witchcraft and Sorcery: An Anthropological Perspective of the Occult, The Way We Communicate, Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts within Clinical Settings, and Stress and Emotional Health: Applications of Clinical Anthropology. He is also a Naturopathic Doctor in private practice.
First line
Body modifications through mutilation, scarification, and its corollary tattooing-the insertion of pigment into abraded, punctured, or incised skin-have a long history and a much longer prehistory.
Media reviews
"Tattooings are not only ornaments... they are not only emblems of nobility and symbols of rank in the social hierarchy; they are also messages fraught with spiritual and moral significance... not only to imprint a drawing onto the flesh but also to stamp onto the mind all the traditions and philosophy of the group."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
"And this tattooing has been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the Earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but those mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them."
- Herman Melville
About the author
John A. Rush, Ph.D., N.D., is a Professor of Anthropology at Sierra College, Rocklin, California, teaching Physical Anthropology and Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion. Dr. Rush's publications include Witchcraft and Sorcery: An Anthropological Perspective of the Occult, The Way We Communicate, Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts within Clinical Settings, and Stress and Emotional Health: Applications of Clinical Anthropology. He is also a Naturopathic Doctor in private practice.
