Tattoos can represent healing from self-harm.
Tattoos may honour someone who has died.
Tattoos may celebrate culture and background.
Tattoos can represent healing from self-harm.
Tattoos may honour someone who has died.
Tattoos may celebrate culture and background.
Healing tattoos are those that people obtain in order to:
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celebrate
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challenge
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disrupt and/or
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(re)claim
an aspect of themselves and/or of social phenomena.
We investigated the experience and meaning of tattoos that have a healing effect for their wearers.
