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Spiritual Tattoo

Spiritual Tattoo Paperback / softback - 2005

by John Rush

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Say "body modifications" and most people think of tattoos and piercings. They associate these mainly with the urban primitives of the 1980s to today and with primitive tribes. In fact, as this fascinating book shows, body mods
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  • Title Spiritual Tattoo
  • Author John 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 # ria9781583941171_inp
  • 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.