Chapter 1: Introduction: “Totem and Tattoo”
Part I: TATTOOING (AS) ART
Chapter 2: “A Medium, Not a Phenomenon: An Argument for An Art Historical Approach to Western Tattooing”
Chapter 3: “Contemporary Western Tattooing as an Inherently Collaborative Practice: The Contingent Authorial Input and Operational Mode of the Tattooist”
Chapter 4: “Branch out, Perform, Interlink: Reading Tattoos as Soma-Hypertexts in Shelley Jackson's SKIN and Skin Motion's Soundwave Tattoos”
Part II: TRANSCULTURAL TATTOOING
Chapter 5: “Hüh tu pu/ To Mark with Tattoo: Chen Naga Tiger-Spirit Tattoos and Indigenous Ontologies in Northeast India”
Chapter 6: “The last generation of tattooed Bedouin women in southern Jordan: When tradition and climate change collided in Wadi Rum”
Chapter 7: “Tattoos, ‘Tattoos,’ Vikings, ‘Vikings,’ and Vikings”
Part III: TATTOOING THE POLITICAL BODY
Chapter 8: “Herman Melville’s (Un)Readables: Tattoos”
Chapter 9: “The Life of the Tattoo: Subcutaneous Surveillances and the Economy of the Stigmatization”
Chapter 10: “Democratic Hieroglyphs: On the People’s Indecipherable Flesh in Moby-Dick”
Part IV: TATTOOING LITERATURES
Chapter 11: “Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy: Writing Out the Body Between Grammatology and Exscription”
Chapter 12: “Tattooing Terminable Interminable: Psychoanalysis, Corporeal Marking and Literature”
Chapter 13: “Effluvial Exhalations: Genet’s ontological quandary”
Chapter 14: “Limited Ink: Of Repressence, Inkorporation, and Marineation”
Chapter 15: “Derrida & Deleuze as Tattooed Savages”.