Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History Bruce Olson and contemporary descriptions

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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History Bruce Olson and contemporary descriptionsDespite the social sciences' growing fascination with tattooing and the immense popularity of tattoos themselves the practice has not left much of a historical record. And, until very recently, there was no good context for writing a serious history of tattooing in the West. This collection exposes, for the first time, the richness of the tattoo's European and American history from antiquity to the present day. In the process, it rescues tattoos from