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Spiritual Tattoo

Spiritual Tattoo Paperback / softback - 2005

by John A. Rush

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  • Title Spiritual Tattoo
  • Author John A. Rush
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Third Impression
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Frog in Well, Berkeley, CA
  • Date March 17, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781583941171
  • ISBN 9781583941171 / 1583941177
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 7.01 x 0.64 in (23.72 x 17.81 x 1.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Tattooing, Body marking
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004025244
  • 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.

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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.