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"Tattoos archive people's stories on their skin; this book grapples with how these inked stories invite conversations, connections, and sometimes controversy"--
List of contents
Foreword by Verne Harris
Preface
Introduction
1. The Limits of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
2. A Brief Exploration of Tattoos: Prehistoric to Present
3. My Body is a Repository: Tattoo as an Act of Storytelling
4. Tattoos as an Act of Belonging
5. What Tattoos Tell Us about Tradition and Appropriation
6. Disrupting the Binary: Tattoos, Gender, and Queerness
7. Tattoos and Control Systems
8. Memorial Tattoos
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Terry Baxter (he/him) has been an archivist for almost 40 years, the last 25 with the Multnomah County (OR) Archives, USA. He helped establish the County Archives in 2001 and continues seeking ways to use it to assist information seekers of all sorts. Baxter is a member of and has served in a variety of leadership positions in Northwest Archivists; Society of American Archivists; Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums; Archives Leadership Institute; and The Academy of Certified Archivists.Libby Coyner-Tsosie (she/they) is the University Archivist at UMass Amherst in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, USA, where she primarily cares for collections related to the history of the university. She was trained in archival studies and library science at the University of British Columbia and is a member of the 2016 cohort of the Archives Leadership Institute. She is a cancer survivor whose life has been reshaped by disability. Libby lives with her partner Shepherd and their five cats.
