Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing Movements as Reclamation of Tribal Body Sovereignty
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Novi Santoso
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1Department of Electrical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
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Traditional hand-tapped tattooing among Dayak and Mentawai peoples faced decades of state criminalization and missionary suppression. We trace the contemporary urban revival of ritual hand-tap motifs among indigenous youth as conscious statements of cultural sovereignty, decolonization, and ethnic pride.
