{"id":844,"date":"2023-12-12T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/?p=844"},"modified":"2023-12-22T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:24:47","slug":"class-2-caplan-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/2023\/12\/12\/class-2-caplan-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 2: Caplan Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Looking at tattooing as a non-linear, multicultural (global), intersectional practice with a discontinuous history\u00a0\n
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    1. Intersection of religion (*identity)\/ spirituality\/ culture\/ ritual <\/strong>(a practice repeated throughout time) and art\n
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      1. Human agency and activity involved in the practice of tattooing <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. \u201cTattoo Renaissance:\u201d rebirth or betterment of tattoos<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Binaries between inclusion and exclusion, internal\/ external, invisible\/ visible <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Alfred Gell: \u201cWrapping in Images\u201d\n
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        1. \u201c… Exteriorization of the interior which is simultaneously the interiorization of the exterior\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Anzieu: \u201cThe Skin Ego,\u201d similar idea of tattoos as a communication between interior and exterior\n
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          1. Skin allows for exchanges, but also protects the body; reveals the interior (ex. blushing)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. Chapter 1: \u201cStigma and Tattoo\u201d\n
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            1. Greek and Roman stigma around \u201cbarbarians,\u201d but that \u201cstigmata\u201d meant tattooing and now branding\/ burning\n
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              1. Exposure to tattoo: Egyptians, early Israelites, and Northern Neighbors (Southern Bulgaria and Turkey) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
              2. Clear etymological evidence about stigma meaning tattoo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              3. Cultural Significance of Stigma: decoration vs degradation\n
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                1. Also sometimes a status marker <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                2. Persians often used it as a punitive function\n
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                  1. Greeks adopted this <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  2. Samians also would tattoo Athenian prisoners on their foreheads <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  3. Membership and Religious Function: sacred tattoos in Syria, the mouth of the Nile with the initials of God on their wrist <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  4. Long standing tradition of decoration and punishment as a binary of tattooing, bridged by human participation\/ agency <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  5. Chapter 2: Function of tattooing in punitive situations specifically from late antiquity into the Byzantine period?\n
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                    1. Christianity as a force in administering this <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    2. Ambivalence of the signs: difference between intent and how it became understood <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    3. Edict of emperor Constantine that says punishment cannot mark the faces because \u201cdivine beauty cannot be disgraced\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    4. Function and form of penal tattoo (often on foreheads):\n
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                      1. Name of crime, name of the empire\/ symbol of it (owl for Athens), name of punishment <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      2. Shifting meaning of symbols, transition from \u201cdefacing\u201d into venerable living icons (inscription with the lord\u2019s name)\n
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                        1. Christianity reconsiders suffering, turning it into sacrifice, martyrdom, bravery, etc. A lot of Christians used the \u201cpunishment\u201d tattoos as a voluntary faithful practice <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                        2. Chapter 3: Tattooing practices of the Celtics of the British Isles\n
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                          1. St Brigid <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          2. \u201cIndelible mark made on the skin\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                          3. Saints: behavior dictated by the Bible or a written tradition (scripture), body becomes a place where scripture is inscribed\n
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                            1. Powerful idea of claiming identity through written language imprinted on the body <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            2. Absence of language to describe tattoos, make it incredibly hard to trace\/ document<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11517,"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\/844"}],"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\/11517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}