TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Trauma and Tattoo
JO  - Anthropology of consciousness
A1  - Sarnecki, Judith Holland
SP  - 35
EP  - 42
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1556-3537
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ac.2001.12.2.35
ID  - ref1
ER  -