{"product_id":"the-social-semiotics-of-tattoos-skin-and-self-bloomsbury-advances-in-semiotics-9781350169067","title":"The Social Semiotics of Tattoos Skin and Self Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris William Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Social Sciences at Algonquin College, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell written and very engaging ... A very strong ethnographic text which fuses together social semiotics and ethnography in a very accessible form. * LINGUIST *\u003cbr\u003eI thought I knew everything about the semiotics of tattoos, given that I have been teaching the discipline for over four decades. But this book has opened my eyes to new ways of grasping the meanings of tattoos in the world today. While it takes a historical foray into the meanings of tattoos, the book projects us into the current system of coding that tattoos evoke. It is a brilliant and refreshing new treatment of a topic that I thought had been laid to rest. * Marcel Danesi, Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada *\u003cbr\u003eChris William Martin’s new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Semiotics of Tattoos: Skin and Self\u003c\/i\u003e, is a welcome new addition to the literature on tattooing. After almost 30 years worth of scholarship on the subject, much of which has been focused on deviance (or the shift away from it), the time is right for a new analysis of tattooing as an art and profession, within a context of rapid cultural change. \u003ci\u003eThe Social Semiotics of Tattoos \u003c\/i\u003eis a must for anyone interested in tattoos, bodies, or art. * Margo DeMello, Adjunct Professor of Anthrozoology, Canisius College, USA *\u003cbr\u003eAs a tattooed sociologist and a tattoo enthusiast, I found this book to be highly engaging from a number of different perspectives.  In addition to its specific contribution to tattoo scholarship, the work also contributes to theory, specifically to social semiotics, and methodology, specifically to ethnographic research. * Deborah Davidson, Associate Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada and author of The Tattoo Project: Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive *\u003cbr\u003eChris Martin has written an absorbing study on the sociological and semiotic facets of tattooing. This book is based not only on his semiotic training and scholarship but also on the author’s own immersion and fieldwork within the tattooing and body art sub-culture. He makes a persuasive case for tattoos as anchors of meaning and identity construction in a dizzying and mercurial \u003ci\u003eLiquid Modern\u003c\/i\u003e world. He does so with great passion but roots this in close and critical reading of diverse examples. This book will help you appreciate the profundity of both the art and craft of tattooing. As someone who has overlooked tattoos as semiotic entity, his book has opened my eyes to the power of the ink! * Chris Arning, Founder-Director, Creative Semiotics, UK *\u003cbr\u003eAccomplish[es] a movement of tattoo studies beyond the reductive, reactionary stereotypes that keep lingering on and in doing so help[s] to pave the way for more respectful and rigorous analysis of this complex and significant art form. * Fashion Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1: Tattoos and Tattooing in an Era of Liquid Modernity  2. The Art and Artist Behind Your Tattoo 3. Tattoo Artists as Artists  4. Permanence as Rebellion: Skin and Self 5. Of Cultural Change and Gendered Bodies 6. Tattoos as Artistic and Emotional Signifiers  Conclusions   Bibliography Methodological Appendix  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084831650135,"sku":"9781350169067","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350169067.jpg?v=1762207297","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-semiotics-of-tattoos-skin-and-self-bloomsbury-advances-in-semiotics-9781350169067","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}