Bodies of InscriptionSince the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle class consumption. She shows how a completely new set of meanings derived primarily from non Western