Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Totem and Tattoo
	Bibliography
Part I: Tattooing (as) Art
	Chapter 2: A Medium, Not a Phenomenon: An Argument for an Art-Historical Approach to Western Tattooing
		Prologue
		Introduction
		Inserting Modes
		Tattooing as a Verb
		Tattooing in the Historiography of Art History
		Methods
			Tattooing in Its Visual Culture Contexts
			Tattoo Artists as Authors
			The Archival Lens Problem
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Contemporary Western Tattooing as an Inherently Collaborative Practice: The Contingent Authorial Input and Operational Mode of the Tattooist
		The (In)visibility of Tattooing Practice and Practitioners in Academic Literature
		The Processes of Tattoo Production
		Consultation Process
		Design Process
		Preparation Process
		Tattooing Process
		The Contingent Operational Mode/Authorial Input of the Contemporary Western Tattooist
		The Authorial Input of the Tattooist Operating as a Craftsperson
		The Authorial Input of the Tattooist Operating as a Visual Artist
		The Authorial Input of the Tattooist Operating as a Designer
		Toward an Informed Understanding of the Collaborative Nature of Contemporary Western Tattooing
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Branch Out, Perform, Interlink: Reading Tattoos as Soma-hypertexts in Shelley Jackson’s SKIN and Skin Motion’s Soundwave Tattoos
		The Body as a Medium: Soma-hypertexts and Tattoo Narratives
		The Semiotic Body in Shelley Jackson’s SKIN
		Soundwave Tattoos and the Experiences of Permanence and Transience Through Tattooing
		Bibliography
Part II: Transcultural Tattooing
	Chapter 5: Hüh tu pu/To Mark with Tattoo: Chen Naga Tiger-Spirit Tattoos and Indigenous Ontologies in Northeast India
		The Chen Tattoo
		The Tiger-Spirit Tattoo
		In Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: The Last Generation of Tattooed Bedouin Women in Southern Jordan: When Tradition and Climate Change Collided in Wadi Rum
		From Traditional to Taboo
		Wadi Rum and Its Bedouin
		Bedouin Female Tattooing: Tarfa and Bakheeta
			Bakheeta and Tarfa34
		Climate Change and the Unraveling of Washam
		Deconstructing the Aftermath
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Tattoos, “Tattoos,” Vikings, “Vikings,” and Vikings
		Enigma and Simulacrum
		Metatexts and Fictionality
		Bibliography
Part III: Tattooing the Political Body
	Chapter 8: Herman Melville’s (Un)Readables: Tattoos
		Introduction
		Disrupting Conventional Readings of the Body
		A Primal Scene of Reading
			Ishmael’s Unconscious Chirography
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: The Life of the Tattoo: Subcutaneous Surveillances and the Economy of the Stigmatization
		Biopolitical Tattooing
		Discipline and Control
		Dis-grace
		Tattooing and Being Tattooed
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Democratic Hieroglyphs: On the People’s Indecipherable Flesh in Moby-Dick
		Bibliography
Part IV: Tattooing Literatures
	Chapter 11: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy: Writing Out the Body Between Grammatology and Exscription
		Jacques Derrida and (Bio)grammatology
		Jean-Luc Nancy and Exscription
		To the Southern Reach
		The Crawler
		Making Sense of It All
		In Conclusion (Beyond Allegory)
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Tattooing Terminable Interminable: Psychoanalysis, Corporeal Marking and Literature
		Lacanian Tattoos: Writing on the Body
		Tattooing as Marked Body in Literature: Toward Kafka and Beckett
			Tattooing Punishment
			Tattoo for the Species
		Endless Ending
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Effluvial Exhalations: Genet’s Ontological Quandary
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: Limited Ink: Of Repressence, Inkorporation, and Marineation
		Where Film Grows Cryptcurrently
		Cinematic Writing/Righting: Of Interpellation or Inkorporation?
		Siedlung/Setzung: Of Housing Schemes and UnSettlements
		Tattoo as Immuno-Suppressence and Cryptcurrency
		Cryptcurrency and the Mise-En-Abyme of Tattoo and of the “DEM” Contained Therein
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Derrida and Deleuze as Tattooed Savages
		Derrida’s Idiom: Scarified Dream of a Tattoo
		Deleuze’s and Guattari’s Eye for Tattoos
		Immanent and Transcendent Beauty
		Bibliography
Index