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Pitt Rivers Museum

Body Arts: Travelling Ink

Through conversations with leading tattooists from around the world, this film explores the artistry, philosophy, meaning and history of tattooing at the site of the 2010 London Tattoo Convention.
Pitt Rivers Museum

Body Arts: Kakau and Batok Talk: Tattoos from Hawaii and the Philippines

At the conclusion of her fieldwork in the mountains of northern Luzon in the Philippines, anthropologist Analyn Salvador-Amore filmed an encounter with Hawaiian tattoo practitioner Keone Nunes and a Butbut tattoo practitioner Whang-ud.
Pitt Rivers Museum

Body Arts: Bodies Beautiful

Four women from Oxford take a course in film-making with local film-maker Sharon Woodward from Oxford Film and Video Makers. They explore the changing cultural meaning of body decoration in British society.
Pitt Rivers Museum

Body Arts: What is Body Art?

Sixth-form artists from Cheney School search out the decorated and opinionated residents of Oxford to get their views on Body Art.
Pitt Rivers Museum

Body Arts: Tatau and Ta Moko

Maori artist George Nuku and Samoan artist Rosanna Raymond talk about the significance of traditional Polynesian tattoo designs and some of the stories behind them.
Anthropology

Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China

Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman.

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