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History & Anthropology

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. New York: Random House, 1990.

Armstrong, Tim.  American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique. New York: New York UP, 1996.

Avea, Chief Sielu.  Tatau: The Art of the Samoan Tattoo. Hawaii: Sielu, 1997.

Barbieri, Gian Paolo.  Tahiti Tattoos. Germany:  Taschen, 1998.

Blackburn, Mark.  Tattoos from Paradise. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1999.

Boyd, Todd.  Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture. New York: Doubleday, 2003.

Caplan, Jane.  Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2000.

DeMello, Margo.  Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community. London: Duke UP, 2000.

Ercelawn, Ayesha. New Zealand. Milwaukee, Wis: Gareth Stevens Pub, 2001.

Faris, James C.  Nuba Personal Art.  Duckworth, 1972.

Ferguson, Susan J.  Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004.

Gell, Alfred.  Wrapping  In Images: Tattooing in Polynesia. Oxford, 1993.

Gilbert, Steve.  Tattoo History: A Source Book. New York: Juno Books, 2000.

Gotz.  Polynesian Tattoos: Past and Present. Tahiti: Pacific Promotion, 1998.

Gulik, W. R. Van.  Irezumi. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1982.

Jaguer, Jeff.  The Tattoo: A Pictoral History.  Horndean: Milestone, 1990.

Kaul, A. N.  The American Vision: Actual and Ideal Society in Nineteeth-Century Fiction.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.

King, Michael.  Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century.  Auckland: David Bateman, 1992.

Koudsi, Suzanne. "Aftermath: Culture - Americans Are Lining Up for Patriotic Body Art-As in Tattoos." Fortune. 144.7 (2001): 42.

Kuwahara, Makiko.  Tattoo : An Anthropology. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2005.

Kwiatkowski, P. F.  The Hawiian Tattoo. Hawaii: Halona, 1996.

Light, D. W.  Tattooing Practices of of the Cree Indians. Glen Bow Alberta Institute, 1972.

Lorant, Stefan.  The New World: The First Pictures of America. Philadelphia: Meredith Press, 1946.

Lucas, Don.  The Father of American Tattooing: Franklin Paul Rogers. New Orleans: Lucas Enterprises, 1990.

Madame Chinchilla.  Stewed, Screwed & Tattooed.  Isadore Press, 1997.

Marquart, Carl.  Tattooing of Both Sexes in Samoa. Papakura:  McMillan, 1984.

Mascia-Lees, Frances E. and Patricia Sharpe.  Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text.  Albany: State U of New York , 1992.

Matthiessen, F. O.  American Renaissance:  Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.  New York: Oxford UP, 1941.

McCabe, Michael. Japanese Tattooing Now: Memory and Transition. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2005.

---.  Tattoos of Indochina: Magic, Devotion & Protection. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2002.

---. New York City Tattoo: Style and Continuity in a Changing Art Form. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2001.

---.  New York City Tattoo : The Oral History of an Urban Art. Honolulu: Hardy Marks, 1997.

Mifflin, Margot.  Bodies of Subversion : A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. New York: Juno Books, 2001.

Neleman, Hans.  Moko: Maori Tattoo. Zürich: Edition Stemmle, 1999.

New Zealand.  Kiriwai Tapuke, guest editor. Peterborough, N.H.: Cobblestone Publishing, 2001.

O'Hanlon, Michael. Reading the Skin. British Museum Publications, 1989.

Pierrat, Jérôme and Eric Guillon.  Les gars de la marine : le tatouage de marin. Clichy: Larivière, 2004.

---.  Les Hommes Illustrés: Le tatouage des origines á nos jours. Clichy: Lariviére, 2000.

Poysden, Mark, and Marco Bratt. A History of Japanese Body Suit Tattooing. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2006.

Putzi, Jennifer.  Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America. Athens: U Georgia P, 2006.

Rainier, Chris. Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Markings. San Rafael, CA: Earth Aware Editions, 2006.

Riefenstahl, Leni.  People of Kau.  London: Haverill, 1997.

Robinson, Julian.  The Quest for Human Beauty: An Illustrated History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

Rowe, John Carlos, and Rick Berg.  The Vietnam War and American Culture. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.

Rubin, Arnold.  Marks Of Civilization. Los Angeles: U of California P, 1995.

Rudenko, Sergei.  Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyrk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen. London: J. D. Dent & Sons, 1970.

Ruts, Oliver and Andrea Schuler.  Living Picture Books: Portraits of a Tattooing Passion 1878-1952. Berlin: Memorabilia Pulp, 2002.

Said, Edward W.  Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1993.

Saltz, Ina.  Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh. New York: HNA Books, 2006.

Sanborn, Geoffrey.  The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader. London: Duke UP, 1998.

Sanders, Clinton.  Customizing the Body : The Art and Culture of Tattooing. Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1989.

Sault, Nicole. Ed.  Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1994.

Schiffmacher, Henk. De Grote Borneo Expedite. Amsterdam: De Arbeiterspers, 1996.

Schiffmacher, Henk and Burknard Riemschneider.  1000 Tattoos. Trans. Deborah fflkes,  Cologne. New York: Taschen, 1996.

Schuster, Carl and Edmund Carpenter.  Patterns that Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancinet and Tribal Art. New York: Abrams, 1996.

Steward, Samuel M.  Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks, 1950-1965. New York: Harrington Park, 1990.

Stratton, Royal B.  Captivity of the Oatman Girls. 1858. 3rd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Swan, James Gilchrist.  The Haidah Indians of Queen Charlottes Islands, British Columbia. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1874.

Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West.  Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

Thomas, Nicholas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas. Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West. London: Reaktion, 2005.

Wilson, Kathleen, ed.  A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840. Cambridge UP, 2004.