Tattooing Starts at Home: Tattooing, Affectivity, and Sociality

Author: Broome, Karl

Source: Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Volume 10, Number 3, September 2006 , pp. 333-350(18)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

The arduous and lengthy tattoo apprenticeship is seen by many tattoo practitioners as the quintessential rite of passage for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a tattooist. This essay draws upon ethnographic material consisting of observations and experiences of tattooing carried out by a self-taught practitioner that took place in a kitchen in Brockley, South East London. Broome traces the growing confidence, competence, and changing embodiment of the practitioner as he develops his tattoo skills over a twelve-month period. As an intercorporeal process, Broome argues, learning to tattoo is an “embodied affectual dialogical practice”, that should be simultaneously considered as a non-discursive, embodied form of cultural expression.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.2752/136270406778050860

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