We also have a brand new chapter on the medical anthropology of tattooing in the Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification. This was co-authored with former graduate student Michael Smetana. Mike wrote the first draft for a course, and I slogged away on the rest of it over the course of a year or two. Marco Samadelli wrote a short summary and didn’t have time to write a full chapter, so they asked me to combine his chapter with ours. I’m quite pleased with it, though I’ve already found a few things that will need to be fixed if they retain it for future editions. Check it out here.
