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TATTOOING AMONG CIVILIZED PEOPLE IBD

COSIMO CLASSICS
02 / 1905
9781646797059
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Sinopsis

'Not one great country can be named, from the Polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.' -Charles Darwin, The Descent of ManTattooing Among Civilized People (1882) by Robert Fletcher is a presentation the author made to the Anthropological Society of Washington. Given the purpose of the organization, Fletcher?s paper focused on the anthropological significance of tattoos: in which cultures their use was prominent, why they were used, and how they differed from one culture to another.

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10,11