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Oral Accounts and Visual Inscriptions: Narratives under Heavily Tattooed Skin

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Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation

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Abstract

Heavily tattooed bodies are commonly found among young people today. As João, a 24-year-old Lisbon tattooist said to me recently, “Everything, absolutely everything, has changed. From month to month and from year to year, I notice that there are more and more supporters of tattoos.” One of his customers, Luis, a 23-year-old shelf stacker, went further, saying that “Society is being forced to open its doors to our scenes … And this will grow. I think it’s going to reach the point of exaggeration. Even if it’s not the majority, lots of people will keep getting piercings and tattoos.”

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Ferreira, V.S. (2016). Oral Accounts and Visual Inscriptions: Narratives under Heavily Tattooed Skin. In: Benmayor, R., de la Nuez, M.E.C., Prats, P.D. (eds) Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438713_9

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