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Need help? Forgot your password? November November Contents. Booklist's Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries: Buy on Bookshop. Log In Go. Current Issue. It contributes to our understanding of the antiquity, durability, and significance of tattooing and human body decoration and illuminates how different societies have used their skin to construct their identities.

Ancient Ink connects ancient body art traditions to modern culture through Indigenous communities and the work of contemporary tattoo artists. Read more Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private.

Save Cancel. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item The desire to alter and adorn the human body is universal. Reviews Editorial reviews. Publisher Synopsis Ancient Ink is a significant volume, not only because it is a large collection of important essays that investigate tattooing in the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical record, but also because it seriously and systematically addresses and documents the antiquity and revival of human body decoration through tattooing.

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Tattooing -- Social aspects. All rights reserved. Please sign in to WorldCat Don't have an account? Remember me on this computer. Cancel Forgot your password? Print book : English View all editions and formats. Tattooing -- History. It sounds like the recipe for a near-perfect book.

Certainly there is material to enjoy here. The various worlds of the scriptologists are fascinating as well, and Clare gives readers a good look at the method behind this science-magic. Certain elements, like the nature of scriptology and the fact that only certain people seem to be able to practice in these fields, suggest magic, yet mechanics seems essentially scientific, and alchemy walks the border between the two.

Following this line of questioning causes the worldbuilding to break down all too quickly. The characters are another mixed bag. On one hand, the cast is fairly well-rounded. The book also features some diversity: Elsa hails from a world reminiscent of the Pacific Islands or somewhere similar, and another character, Faraz, is from Tunisia by way of Turkey.