{"id":541,"date":"2023-09-17T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/?p=541"},"modified":"2023-09-17T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:40:08","slug":"9-13-class-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/2023\/09\/17\/9-13-class-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/13 Class Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really enjoyed our discussion in class on 9\/13 and particularly thought the concept of ritual was very interesting. In our worlds that are constantly changing, we need some sort of continuity to ground us. Tattooing as a practice is one of those rituals that people keep turning to in order to connect the exterior and interior, as Alfred Gell described. I also think it&#8217;s interesting how tattooing can give us a sense of agency over our own bodies, as we can&#8217;t always control how history marks us. But it&#8217;s quite disturbing how people tattoo others against their will, which completely deprives them of agency in marking their own body and serves almost as a way that history marks them instead. I feel like that takes away from the spirituality and expression of tattooing as a ritual.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed our discussion in class on 9\/13 and particularly thought the concept of ritual was very interesting. In our worlds that are constantly changing, we need some sort of continuity to ground us. Tattooing as a practice is one of those rituals that people keep turning to in order to connect the exterior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}