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Unlike other ways to change your appearance - hair and makeup - a tattoo is forever. It is no coincidence in the eyes of many ancient peoples it was a matter of applying nelegkomyslennym. Once the inhabitants of Borneo believe that their drawings are like torches, illuminating the path of the deceased in the pitch darkness of the kingdom of the dead. The ancient Greeks and Romans used tattoos as a punishment. For Altai Scythian headdress served as the epitome of the sacred text. What explains the popularity of modern manipulation of the body? Perhaps primitive mentality has not left us forever? In the book, tattoos and other indelible signs of artificial origin in the human body considered as a historical source. Attracted evidence of archeology, physical and social anthropology, folklore, monuments of ancient literature are analyzed. The book contains the development of original scientific ideas, submitted, if possible, in a very popular manner that will allow use of these data specialists in different branches of knowledge.

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