@article{ref1,
title="Trauma and Tattoo",
journal="Anthropology of consciousness",
year="2001",
author="Sarnecki, Judith Holland",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="35-42",
abstract="This article examines how tattoos may function as a way to deal with personal trauma. First, I examine a recent theory of how personal trauma cannot be fully experienced; thus, it calls for a return to the event in order to incorporate it into the psyche. Second, I look at how that return, often achieved symbolically, might include the process of acquiring a tattoo. Finally, I turn to various examples, taken from memoirs, film, and an interview, of trauma that has been expressed through tattooed images that turn bodies into memory-laden texts.<p />",
language="",
issn="1556-3537",
doi="10.1525/ac.2001.12.2.35",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ac.2001.12.2.35"
}