1st Edition
Exploring Sacred Ink Tattooing, Identity, and Belonging
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alinda Damsma
1. (Re)constructing Tattoo Practices in the Ancient Nile Valley
Michelle Kay
2. The Devil’s Mark as Divine Tattoo in Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis
Alinda Damsma
3. Was The Divine Name Tattooed as Numbers 6:27 Indicates?
Sandra Jacobs
4. Marked Hands: Proper Names as Hand Tattoos in the Hebrew Bible
Søren Lorenzen
5. “As a Sign Upon Your Arm”: Gabriel Wolff’s Hebrew Calligraphy Tattoos as Jewish Ritual
Joanna Homrighausen
6. Tattooing in Archaic Greece
Sławomir Sprawski
7. Prolegomena to a History of Women’s Tattoos in Iran
Sarah Kiyanrad
8. Sacred Skin: Ritual Body Marking and the Tattooed Man of Huacho in Pre-Columbian Peru
Judyta Bąk and Henry W. Marcelo
9. The Body as the Cosmos: Pre-Hispanic Tattooing in Mexico
Laura Corrales Blanco
10. Santa Muerte Tattooed in the Skin: Death Inside the Flesh
Kate Kingsbury
11. Language Reclamation and Identity Construction through Meänkieli Tattoos
Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi.
Index
Biography
Alinda Damsma is a lecturer in ancient Semitic languages in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, UK.
