The History of Tattooing
$39.29
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2009
Summary
This 1925 survey constitutes one of the most complete histories of world tattoo practices. It was written at the end of a significant era in anthropological fieldwork, when the efforts of missionaries and the impact of European imperialism had suppressed all but the final vestiges of indigenous native tattoo traditions. Subsequent opportunities for original fieldwork related to tattooing were rare, making this book a valuable link to vanishing cultures.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486468129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486468127 |
| Author: | Wilfrid Dyson Hambly |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 393g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 136mm x 215mm |
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Wilfrid Dyson Hambly
W. D. Hambley was an anthropologist, a noted authority on Africa, and the assistant curator of African Ethnology for the Museum of Natural History of Chicago.
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