Alfred Gell's "Wrapping in Images"
 

Alfred Gell's Wrapping in Images: Tattooing in Polynesia
 
"a systematic, comparative study of regional traditions of body art and tattooing in [...] recent Polynesian societies, and their social and conceptual permutations"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #to_read, #anthropology, #body #art

> created Apr 29, 2025 at 6:52:05 AM


> part of unfinished everything


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