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The role of ritual and spirituality in diasporic Philippine cultural tattoo practices

It’s impossible to talk about cultural tattooing without talking about colonisation and history, so first, a digression: Los Pintados Tattooing isn’t generally thought of as part of modern Filipino culture, unless it’s from a Western context. Tattoos are thought of as marks of a rebellious and suspicious nature, or of someone with a big enough […]

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