Tattoo Culture examines the rituals and social significance of tattooing in cultures around the world.
The record of human history shows that tattoos have served in many various and diverse cultures as rites of passage, marks of status and rank,
symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talisman,
protection and as the marks of outcasts and convicts.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
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