As I continued to read through the chapters there were some similarities throughout different chapters. We see that people of the Western world trying to understand tattoos and studying them but also putting their own interpretations and ideas into tattoos and tattooed people. Chapter 6 mentions the curiosity of the European people that lead to the exoticization of people like Omai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Chapter 7, talking about the Godna tattoos in India. We see people whose culture didn’t stigmatize tattoos, get colonized and have part of their culture used as punitive measures. Godna tattoos were originally caste related and in a sense similar to the symbols in Chapter 4. The tattoos were believed to help their next life in a similar way that some believed that the symbols could change their fate outside their current realm. But as India was colonized, the meanings and usage of tattoos changed. The British thought tattoos were directly related to caste and eventually many places in India adopted the use of tattoos as markings for criminals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chapter 8 has parallels to the Christians in chapter 2. To prove your devotion to your religion with pain and something permanent is shown in chapter 2 and 8. As someone who grew up very Christian household, I was always taken aback by the way pain is glorified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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