Customizing the Body (PDF file) - Print My Tattoo

244 Index
Spector, Malcolm, 35
Spiggle, Susan, 89, 133
Sprecher, Susan, 1, 7
Stampfl, Ronald, 117
Stone, Gregory, 1
Style: change within, 29; social
organization and, 23–25. See
also Art
Sudnow, David, 133
Sudo, Masato, 217
Suikoden, 12, 217
“Sumptuary laws,” 4
Sykes, Gresham, 40, 189
Symbolic interactionism, xxi
“Taste public,” 29, 107
Tattoo, as aesthetic object, x–xi, 47,
207–209; “Dark Art,” 167; decision
to aquire,41–43; decision to
reveal to others, 54-56; equipment,
166, 167–168; gender differences
in body location, 48–50;
interactional consequences of,
52–57, 126–127; as “mark of
disaffiliation”, 58–60; price, 106,
123–124, 143; quality, 73–76,
126–127, 129–131; self-definition
and, 46–47, 51–52; social relationships
and, 45–46, 126–127,
209–210, 211; styles, 166–168,
symbolizing interests, 47; as
“tarnished” product, 60, 107
Tattoo (Robert Brooks), 216
Tattoo Advocate, The, 160, 171
Tattoo Archive, 34
Tattoo Art Museum (San
Francisco), 191, 217
Tattoo conventions, 172–174
Tattoo, Mick, 168
Tattooee, 37–61; author’s
experience as, 197–201; choice
of design and body location,
45–51, 138–139, 144–146, 201,
208; conventional/“scientific”
views of, 36–41, 179–181; demographic
characteristics of, 193;
as deviant, xi–xiii, 18–19, 209,
216; disrespectful, 139–140,
141–142; experience of risk,
117–128; intoxicated, 104–105,
141–142; lack of knowledge, 42,
44–45; regret, 57–58, 90,
129–131, 209, 212–213; tattooist’s
typification of, 131–147;
typical, 26; unhygienic, 105–106,
140, 144
Tattoo equipment suppliers,
26-27. See also Spaulding and
Rogers Manufacturing
Tattoo Historian, 15l, 160
Tattooing: AIDS and, 144, 210,
215; ancient, 9–11 appropriate
receiving demeanor during,
137–139; as art, 3, 19–20,
32–35, 155–160, 212, 216–217;
as “bastard institution,” 107;
changes within, 18–20, 25–32,
165–168; contemporary literature
on, 179–186; collective
response to stigma of, 95–97; as
coping mechanism in prison,
39–40; “credence qualities” and,
118; criminality and, 39–40;
danger and, 143–144, 192,
196–197, 216; deviance and,
vii–viii, xi–xiii,17, 18, 30–31, 41,
149, 156, 157–158, 162–163,
209, 216; diffusion of, vii-x,
9–10; economic uncertainty of,
99–100; Egyptian, 9; equipment
suppliers as source of information,
76–77; estimates of prevalence,
207; “experience qualities”
and, 118; First Amendment and,
31; history of western, 13–20;
interaction surrounding, 41–43,
81–82, 88–90, 131–147;
Japanese, 11–13, 19–20, 157,
160, 200–201, 206–207, 209,
211, 215, 217, 219; as “lowbrow”
art, x–xi, market structure of,
28–30; media presentation of,
192; “neo-tribal,” 20; occupational
stigma of, 91–97 191; as popular
cultural fad, viii–x; 186–187;
prison experience and, 207, 210,