MARKING BODIES, TATOOING IDENTITIES: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE TRADITIONAL TATTOOS OF THE KALINGA, NORTHERN LUZON, PHILIPPINES AND THE ATAYAL OF TAIWAN

• Authors: Analyn Salvador-Amores
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

With combined methods of anthropological fieldwork and use of various sources (historical documents, archival photographs, and oral narratives), this exploratory paper is a comparative study of the practice of traditional tattooing between the indigenous groups in Kalinga, north Luzon Philippines, and the Atayal of Taiwan. Findings show that the two groups share the same cultural characteristics in terms of the rationale for getting tattoos, the methods, designs and others. But the difference in historical experiences between the two also determined the trajectories of tattooing practice in the contemporary context, the Kalinga with its revival and the Atayal on the decline.

Keywords

EN

KALINGA; NORTHERN PHILIPPINES; ATAYAL OF TAIWAN; TRADITIONAL TATTOOING; FACIAL TATTOOS; TATTOOING

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 473 – 504

Contributors

author

Analyn Salvador-Amores

• Department of Social Anthropology and Psychology, College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Baguio, Gov. Pack Road, Baguio, 2600, Philippines