Title: The History of Tattoo’s Topic: To explain tattoing and the history behind it. Specific Statement: To inform. Thesis Statement: Tattoos often get a bad wrap, but the truth behind tattoos is warriors, lovers, and doctors have used tattoos to strike fear into enemies hearts’ as well as show their loved ones’ how much pain they would endure for their significant others and secure their bond of love forever. Attention Materials: By a show of hands, how many of you have tattoos? What do they mean to you or what is the significance of your tattoo?
Tattoos It seems that more people are expressing themselves by using body art, known as tattoos. This form of expression can be seen in today’s society more than in any era in the history of humankind. Why is this? Not too long ago most people associated tattoos with sailors, convicts, and motorcycle gangs. Today, tattoos are mainstream.
The Samoan, Maori, Borneo, African, North American Aboriginal cultures are just a few that have used the tattoo as a way to tell a story of Transition into maturity. Before there was writing with words to identify a person, we used pictures. Many of the cultures used the tattoo to tell the status of an individual in society. The Maori of New Zealand used Tattooing starting at puberty, accompanied by many rites and rituals. In addition to making a warrior attractive to women, the tattoo practice marked both rites of passage and important events in a person's life.
You’ll find tattoos in accounting and lawyers and every straight-up job. It isn’t just alternative people.” (Finlo Rohrer) 2007 Humanity has decorated their bodies with tattoos for many centuries. In the beginning mostly men received tattoos. In this age you see men and women of all ages, races, religions and social groups with tattoos. The once taboo subject is no longer as unaccepted as in past decades.
Tattoos are probably better and safer now than they’ve ever been, and it goes without saying people get more creative with such a wide variety, applied in many cases by serious, highly skilled body artists. Then again, there are tattoos, and there are tattoos. Some tattoo aficionados have transformed large portions of their bodies into multicolored canvases for all types of skulls, serpents, raptors, dragons, flowers, vines, angels, demons, daggers, buxom bombshells and portraits of heroes and loved ones. If you can dream it, there is an artist that can produce it. Tattoos have been used for centuries to reflect changes in life status, whether passage into adulthood or induction into a group like the military or a gang.
Body Suspension Since the dawn of mankind the people from different areas and regions of our earth have marked themselves in different ways as part of their culture. Culture and religion have had much influence to the way people interact and conduct their bodies and lives. One thing that has become popular in our culture in the last ten years is body modification, the act of changing the look or appearance of one’s body(“Body Suspension”). Body suspension, a type of body modification, is the act of suspending one’s body from hooks that are attached to the skin as temporary piercings. Although this act seems new to most it has been around for some time, but has been traced back to the times of the Mandan tribe in the United States, located on the banks of the Missouri river, and to the Hindu culture for thousands of years in Asia and the Middle East.
Tattoos have been used as cultural symbols among many tribal populations, as well as the caste-based Hindu population of India. Henna and Mehndi were popular in ancient India and ancient Egypt, and still remain popular today in the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and North Africa. Tattooing has been a part of Filipino life since pre-Hispanic colonization of the Philippine Islands, tattooing in the Philippines to some were a form of rank and accomplishments, some believed that tattoos had magical qualities. Pre-Christian Germanic, Celtic and other central and northern European tribes were often heavily tattooed, according to surviving accounts. The Picts were supposedly tattooed (or scarified) with elaborate dark blue woad (or possibly copper for the blue tone) designs, though only Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars (54 BCE).
Bob Dylan’s “The Times they are a Changing” was released in 1964. Bob Dylan is considered one of the greatest rock/folk singers of all times. Lyrically Bob Dylan has managed to write songs that have made a lot of people change the way they face society. During the 1960s many politicians saw him as a threat due to the fact that his lyrics were becoming powerful in society. People started to see Bob Dylan as someone to follow, because he was honest, and everything he said in his songs made sense.
Tattooing is believed to have originated 10,000 years ago. There is documented proof of tattooing on Egyptian mummies and on Otzi, the ice man discovered in 1991. The methods and tools used in tattooing have changed over the years, but the choice behind getting one is still fashion or to make a statement. Because tattoos used to be used to identify criminals or “undesirables” in the community, that brand is still thought of by many. However, with the increasing popularity tattoos are becoming very common and are being accepted more as the norm.
There is an art form that many of us know about today, we see it everywhere, and on many different walks of life. People get this art for many different reasons; some people display their artwork proudly while others chose to keep theirs in places where only they may ever see. Many people have them, maybe even you have one. Tattoos are a way to express yourself, to let others know about you and who you are. This form of artwork has survived for thousands of years, and over those years tools used to make this artwork have evolved.