This week, I started working on the literature review, which means I need to read through many articles and select the ones that are relevant to my topic.
This is a challenge for me because, aside from some blogs, almost no one has analyzed the tattoos in Jibaro. Therefore, I need to search for literature related to tribal tattoos in Latin America, cultural identity, identity recognition, and colonial history, and then use them as examples to support my argument.
This is some reference I plan to use:
- Balvay-TattooingRoleFrenchNative-2008
- Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivian Tattoo Art
- Antillean Islander Space: On the Religious Beliefs and Representations of the Taíno
- People
- Catholicism and National Identity in Latin America
- Literature Review: The Taíno — Connecting Erased Histories and Contemporary
- Ethnographies Ken Chitwood
- Mestizaje and the Discourse of National/Cultural Identity in Latin America
- The Chicana Canvas: Doing Class, Gender, Race, and Sexuality through Tattooing in
- East Los Angeles
However, due to limitations, I had to keep narrowing down the literature selection, because I needed to focus on Taino culture, Latin American tattoos, so I ended up using only these documents:
1. Chitwood, K. (2015) Literature review: The Taíno — connecting erased histories and contemporary ethnographies, Academia.edu. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/12054494/Literature_REVIEW_The_Ta%C3%ADno_Connecting_Erased_Histories_and_Contemporary_Ethnographies (Accessed: 21 November 2024).
This article help me with the background of that time from a macro perspective, it reflects the Taíno people during the colonial period of the Great Voyage and discusses how the Taíno people’s history and existence were erased by Spanish colonizers.
2. DeMello, M. (2004) Bodies of inscription: A cultural history of the modern Tattoo Community. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
This book discusses the origins, past, present and future of tattoos in a very broad span, in which it explores the semiotic value of tattoos and explains how tattoos are associated with different social classes and hierarchies.
3. Haynes, N. (2022) ‘Inking identity’, The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, pp. 381–394. doi:10.4324/9781003175605-38.
It explores how tattoos can serve as a medium for the fusion of urban culture and traditional culture.
4. Simons, J.W. (2015) Ink with meaning: What we can learn from the tattoos of our ancestors, CNN. Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/what-we-can-learn-from-the-tattoos-of-our-ancestors/index.html (Accessed: 03 December 2024).
It shows that tattooing is both a personal projection of self and a means of communicating deeper cultural meaning.
5. Trujillo, M.S. et al. (2021) ‘The tattoo as ancestral legacy and dichotomic element of national identity’, International Journal of Organizational Business Excellence, 1(2). doi:10.21512/ijobex. v1i2.7155.
This article explores the origins of tattoos, starting with the world’s earliest known tattooed mummy, the Tyrolean Iceman, dating back 5,300 years. It discusses tattoos as an ancestral legacy and how they function as a dichotomous element of national identity
Next, I completed the literature review and made revisions to the formatting issues based on last week’s feedback.
Feedback from teacher:
First, I need to remove the indent from all subheadings and add a new subheading: Content Page.
Second, I need to add space between chapter and 1.
And finally, I need to edit the reference format of the images.