Author: Siorat, Cyril

Source: Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Volume 10, Number 3, September 2006 , pp. 367-380(14)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Abstract:

Due to its unavoidably painful dimensions, tattooing practice is set in a sometimes uncomfortable parallel position with the bio-medical practice. The challenging aspect, and derivated marginal social status, of tattoos may be beyond the purely aesthetic and part of a particular Humanist agenda concerned with the eradication of suffering. Pain and suffering are inherent to the human condition itself and the paper reflects some alternative views and values expressed by tattoo practitioners regarding the constructive and formative dimensions of contemporary painful rituals. Overall, the paper presents the underlying, and often understated, importance of pain to the tattooing practice.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/136270406778050978

Publication date: 2006-09-01

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